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MS. Rawl. A. 387b

Summary Catalogue no.: 11270

Contents

Nicholas Love, Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ (translation of Ps.-Bonaventure, Meditationes uitae Christi)
Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good initials. Copied by the Carthusian Stephen Dodesham, who was at Witham, Som., by 1462 and died at Sheen in 1482. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 940)

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter (?) ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ...viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum...complectens, Quarto Catalogues V, 5 fascicles, 1862–1900). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 384
Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 191

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (5 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-10-31: Toby Burrows/Mapping Manuscript MigrationsProvenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/mapping-manuscript-migrations/oxford-tei-updates/blob/master/update_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.