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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Jesus is taken down from the cross

Image Number: 
JRL0920211dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 94
Previous Accession Number: 
R4595
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Jesus is taken down from the cross
Alternative Image Title: 
Die Veneris
Translated Image Title: 
Friday
Parent Work Title: 
Meditations on the Life of Christ and other 15th century manuscripts
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Meditatione Vitae Christi
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Mirror of the life of Christ
Creator: 
Love, Nicholas, active 1410
Creator Role: 
Translator
Creator Attribution: 
Johannes, de Caulibus, active 14th century
Display Creator: 
Love, Nicholas, active 1410
Date Created: 
15th century
Page: 
96r
Image Sequence Number: 
096r
Description: 
Meditations on the Life of Christ. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus take down the body of Jesus from the cross. Mary, the mother of Jesus, weeps as his body is taken down. The written space is 265 x 153 mm, with two columns in short-r anglicana formata.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Subject: 
Christianity
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
Places Covered: 
Israel: Jerusalem
People Covered: 
Joseph, of Arimathea, Saint
People Covered: 
Nicodemus (Biblical figure)
People Covered: 
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
People Covered: 
Jesus Christ
Item Height: 
362 mm
Item Width: 
240 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Northamptone, Gulielmus
Provenance: 
Wanley, Humfrey, given to Coventry School.
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
Parts of this catalogue have been reproduced from Ker, N.R., 'Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 415. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
References: 
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.21.
Bibliographic Citation: 
Love, Nicholas, 'Mirror of the blessed life of Jesus Christ: a reading text, edited by Michael G. Sargent.' (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2004).
Notes: 
The Meditation on the Life of Christ or the Meditatione Vitae Christi was believed to have been written by the famous 13th-century Franciscan John Bonaventura but more recent scholarship has now attributed the authorship to a little known 14th-century Italian Franciscan, Johannes de Caulibus. Little is know of Love himself, though it appears that he was the prior of Mount Grace, a Carthusian monastery in Yorkshire, as a 'Dom Nicholas Love' is listed as such in 1410.
Cost: 
Purchased by Gordon Duff for the John Rylands Library from the London booksellers Bull & Auvache for £50.00 in January 1894.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-05-05
Multi Page Number: 
975
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-08
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval