Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 142: Nicholas Love OCarth, The Mirrour of the blessyd Lyf of Christ. Treatise on the Sacrament of Christ's Body. Lives of Saints Nicholas, Katherine and Margaret. Form of Confession. Tretys of goostly batayle. Articles of Excommunication
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 142, dating to the fifteenth century, is a copy of translation by Nicholas Love OCarth (d. 1423/4) of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes uitae Christi, an expansion of the Gospel narrative of the life of Christ. This text in both its Latin versions and translations into the vernacular was very popular throughout Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Nicholas Love, a Carthusian, was prior of Mount Grace in Yorkshire. His translation of the Meditationes, The Mirrour of the blessyd Lyf of Christ, was submitted for approval to Archbishop Arundel in 1410, and the Memorandum of the licence of approval is in this manuscript.
- Contents
- The Mirrour of the blessyd Lyf of Christ -- Treatise on the Sacrament of Christ's Body -- Life of St Nicholas -- Life of St Katherine -- Life of St Margaret -- Form of confession -- Tretys of goostly batayle -- Articles of excommunication
Description
Alternative title | Mirror of the Life of Christ etc. |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 126 + 2 |
Date created | [ca. 1400 - 1499] |
Language | English, Middle (1100-1500); Latin |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | double columns of 40 lines |
Height (mm) | 330 |
Width (mm) | 225 |
Collation | 1 flyleaf, 1(8)-11(8) 12(4) 13(8)-16(8) 17(2), 1 flyleaf. |
Writing | in a rather ugly hand |
Foliation | ff. i-iii + 1-127 + iv-v |
Decoration | There are good partial borders and initials in gold and colour of the characteristic English work of the time. |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xv |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | 155 |
Stanley | R. 2 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/kd037vh5815 |
Location | MS 142 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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- Use and reproduction
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- License
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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