Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Richardson 22

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  • MS Richardson 22
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Date
  • 1425
Language
  • Middle English
  • Latin
Title
    • Long charter of Christ
    • Seven works of mercy, bodily and ghostly
    • Shorter charter of Christ
    • Songe of loue to owre lorde Ihu christ
    • Augustine, of Hippo, Saint (354-430). Soliloquia
    • Richard, of St. Victor (-1173). Benjamin minor
    • Anthology of devotional prose and verse : manuscript, [ca. 1425]
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    • William Bragge (1823-1884)
    Role
    • Former owner
    Original form
    • Bragge, William (1823-1884)
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    • Thomas Brooke (1830-1908)
    Role
    • Former owner
    Original form
    • Brooke, Thomas Sir (1830-1908)
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    • Brooke, Thomas, Sir, 1830-1908
    • Sir Thomas Brooke
    • Brooke, John, Sir
    • Sir John Brooke
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    • John Arthur Brooke (1884-1920)
    Role
    • Former owner
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    • Brooke, John Arthur Sir (1844-1920)
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    • Robert Fyncham (14..-15..?)
    Role
    • Former owner
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    • Fyncham, Robert
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    • Augustin (saint, 0354-0430)
    Original form
    • Augustine, of Hippo, Saint (354-430)
    Other form
    • AUGUSTINUS (S.)
    • Ange Vergèce
    • Nicolas Mourmouris
    • Héphestion
    • Homère
    • Jean Dokeianos
    • Saint Augustin
    • Augustin (saint, 0354-0430)
    • AUGUSTIN, Saint
    • Augustinus (saint ; 0354-0430)
    • Augustinus
    • AUGUSTINI
    • Augustin (0354-0430 ; saint)
    • Augustinus Hipponensis
    • Saint Augustin
    • Augustin d'Hippone
    • Augustin (saint ; 0354-0430)
    • S. Augustinus
    • AUGUSTINUS HIPPONENSIS ep. (s.)
    • AUGUSTINUS (s.)
    • AUGUSTINUS
    • Augustin, S.
    • Augustin (sain ; 0354-0430)
    • AUGUSTINUS HIPPONENSIS
    • Augustinus (s.)
    • S. Augustinus Hipponensis
    • Augustinus Hiponnensis
    • Augustin
    • Sancti Augustini
    • Sanctus Augustinus
    • S. Augustinus (?)
    • S. AUGUSTINUS HIPPONENSIS
    • Augustinus episcopus
    • Augustini
    • Sancti Augustini
    • S. Augustin
    • [Augustinus]
    • [AUGUSTINUS]
    • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
    • Augustin (Saint)
    • Augustin saint 0354-0430
    • Agustí, sant, bisbe d'Hipona, 354-430
    • Agustín, Santo, Obispo de Hipona
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Augustinus, Aurelius, 354-430
    • Augustinus (heilige)
    • Author: Augustinus, Aurelius
    • Translator: Augustinus, Aurelius
    • Augustine
    • Augustine of Hippo
    • Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
    • Augustine of Hippo, 354-430, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
    • Augustin (0354-0430 ; saint). Auteur des citations ou des fragments textuels
    • Augustine (attrib.)
    • St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430)
    • St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430), author
    • Pseudo Augustine
    • Pseudo Augustine (Quodvultdeus)
    • Pseudo Augustine (Patrick of Dublin)
    • Pseudo Augustine (Jeronimus)
    • St Augustine
    • Augustinus, Aurelius, Hipponensis, 354-430
    • Augustinus, Aurelius, Hipponensis, 354-430 (role)aut
    • Augustin (saint)
    • Augustinus, Aurelius
    • S. Augustin
    • Aurelius Augustinus (354-430)
    • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, author,
    • Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430)
    • Augustin d’Hippone (0354-0430) > Docteur de l'Eglise
    • Augustin d’Hippone (0354-0430)
    • Augustin d’Hippone (0354-0430) > Evêque
    • Augustinus, Aurelius (354-430)
    • Agustín, Santo, Obispo de Hipona, 354-430
    • Agostinho, Santo, 354-430
    • Agostinho, Santo, 354-430 > , co-autor
    • Agostinho, Santo, 354-430 > , ant. bibliog.
    • Augustin (05.. ?-0604 ? ; saint)
    • Augustinus - auteur
    • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis - 354 - 430 - auteur
    • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis - 354 - 430 - oorspronkelijke auteur
    • Saint Augustin d'Hippone
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    • Richard de Saint-Victor (1110?-1173)
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    • Richard, of St. Victor (-1173)
    Other form
    • Ricardus de Sancto Victore
    • RICARDUS DE SANCTO VICTORE
    • Richardus Sancti Victoris (1110?-1173)
    • Richardus de Sancto Victore
    • Ricardus
    • Richardus Sancti Victoris
    • Richardus de S. Victore
    • Richard de Saint-Victor (1110?-1173)
    • Richard de Saint-Victor
    • Author: Richardus, de Sancto Victore
    • Richard of St. Victor
    • Richard of Saint-Victor, d 1173, Prior of the Augustinian abbey of St Victor, Paris
    • Richard of Saint-Victor OSA
    • Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (attrib.)
    • Richard, of St. Victor, -1173
    • Richardus de Sancto Victore, 1110-1173
    • Justin
    • Richard von St. Viktor
    • Richard of St. Victor (-1173)
    • Richardus
    • Richardus de Sancto Victore, ?-1173, C.R.S.A.
    • Richardus de Sancto Victore, C.R.S.A., ?-1173 > , co-autor
    • Richardus de Sancto Victore - 1110 - 1173 - auteur
    • Magister Riccardus
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Description
  • Physical Description:
    92 leaves, bound : vellum ; 26 cm.

    Notes:
    Written primarily in a bastard anglicana in 1 or 2 columns of 24 lines; numerous decorated foliate initials, burnished gold initials with foliate sprays, and colored initials in blue and red with pen flourishes.
    Written and illuminated in England, possibly at the request of a convent (f. 51v).
    Title supplied by cataloger.
    Bound in late 16th-cent. English brown calf, blind-stamped with crowned Tudor rose.
    In a tray case, 28 cm.
    MS Richardson 22. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
    Primarily in Middle English, with some Latin.

    Subjects:
    Christian life -- Early works to 1800

    Form / Genre:
    Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1400-1450.
    Prayers-England.
    Poems-England-15th century.

    Contents:
    1. Pseudo-Augustinus, Soliloquiorum animae ad Deum; begins: Lord god fader of hevin & of erþe (chapters 4-34 of the Middle English translation, apparently from a French version, ff. 1r-52r) -- 2. Richard of Saint Victor, Benjamin minor; begins: Here bygynnyþ a tretise þat man calliþ Richarde of seynt victor (Middle English translation of his De preparatione animi ad contemplationem, 52v-68v) -- 3. Poem, The seven works of mercy, bodily and ghostly; begins: The seuene dedis of mercy (Middle English prose, 68v-69r) -- 4. Shorter charter of Christ, begins: Sciant presentes & futuri nomen cognomen (in Middle English verse, 71v-72r) -- 5. Poem, A songe of loue to owre lorde Ihu christe; begins: Ihu most swettest of any þynge (Middle English verse, 72r-78r) -- 6. Prayers to the Virgin and Jesus; begins: Ave quene of heuen ladi of erþe well of all bownte (Middle English verse, 78r-82v) -- 7. Long charter of Christ; begins: Who so wole over rede þis boke (ends imperfectly; Middle English verse, 82v-89v) -- 8. Acaudal meditation on human unworthiness; begins: Reliquie cogitionis diem festum agent tibi. Mi good Lord and merciful fader (Middle English, 89v-90v).

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    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
    • Hereford?, England
    • England, Durham ?
    • England, Durham?
    • England, probably Durham
    • England, Oxford (?)
    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
    • England, Durham (?)
    • England, London/Westminster
    • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
    • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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