COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0924592dc
Reference Number:
English MS 98
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Ascension of Jesus
Alternative Image Title:
Die Sabbati
Translated Image Title:
Saturday
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:
121v
Image Sequence Number:
121v
Description:
Meditations on the Life of Christ. The text reflects on the ascension of Jesus into heaven. Jesus comforts his disciples, his mother and Mary Magdalene, who are distraught that he is going to leave them. Illuminated and pen-flourished initials. The written space is 188 x 130 mm, with two columns. The scribe has incorrectly named the section as Die Sabbati; however it should be titled Die Dominica.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Religion
Subject:
Christianity
Subject:
Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1 BCE - 500 CE
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered:
Israel: Jerusalem
People Covered:
Jesus Christ
People Covered:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, 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:
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:
1240
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
Ascension of Jesus
