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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Return to Israel

Image Number: 
JRL0924407dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 98
Previous Accession Number: 
R12144
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Return to Israel
Alternative Image Title: 
Die Martis
Translated Image Title: 
Tuesday
Parent Work Title: 
Speculum Vite Christi
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Meditatione Vitae Christi
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Meditations on the Life of Christ
Translated Parent Work Title: 
Mirror of the life of Christ
Creator: 
Love, Nicholas, active 1410
Creator Role: 
Translator
Display Creator: 
Love, Nicholas, active 1410
Date Created: 
15th century [early]
Page: 
29r
Image Sequence Number: 
029r
Description: 
Meditations on the Life of Christ. After the death of Herod, an angel once again appears to Joseph and tells him that it is safe to return to Israel. The family begin the journey home. The text reflects on the tribulations Jesus suffered even from being a small child. Red rubrication, illuminated and pen-flourished initials. Ink annotations in margin. The written space is 188 x 130 mm, with two columns.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Language Code: 
lat-GB
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Technique Used: 
Illumination (image-making process)
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
Time Period Covered: 
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered: 
Egypt
Places Covered: 
Israel: Northern: Nazareth
People Covered: 
Herod I, King of Judea, 73-4 B.C.
People Covered: 
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
People Covered: 
Jesus Christ
People Covered: 
Joseph, Saint
Item Height: 
304 mm
Item Width: 
204 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Knyvett, Robert
Provenance: 
Evans, Thomas William
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. 416. 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.22.
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 the John Rylands Library from the London booksellers Bull & Auvache for £25.00 on 12 July 1905.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-07-01
Multi Page Number: 
315
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2010-11
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval