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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Life of Jesus

Image Number: 
JRL0924418dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 98
Previous Accession Number: 
R12144
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Life of Jesus
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: 
34v
Image Sequence Number: 
034v
Description: 
Meditations on the Life of Christ. The text reflects on the humble and modest life of Jesus. 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: 
Israel: Northern: Nazareth
People Covered: 
Jesus Christ
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: 
370
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