Vie de Ihesucrist

Item Information

Title:
Vie de Ihesucrist
Title (uniform):
Meditationes vitae Christi
Description:
Anonymous French translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi believed to be by a Franciscan, formerly attributed to St. Bonaventure and sometimes to Giacomo da Sancto Geminiano (cf. Falvey and Toth "L'autore e la trasmissione delle Meditationes Vitae Christi in base a manoscritti volgari italiani")
Author:
Pseudo-Bonaventure
Attributed name:
Johannes, de Caulibus, active 14th century
Attributed name:
Giacomo, da San Gimignano
Attributed name:
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Dubious author:
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Former owner:
Rineck, André de, 1444-1527
Former owner:
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
Former owner:
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
Former owner:
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Date:
[1454]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Medieval--France
Manuscripts, French--France
Bookplates
Inscriptions
Embossed stamps
Gothic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
Subjects:
Jesus Christ--Meditations--Early works to 1800
Jesus Christ--Biography--Early works to 1800
Places:
France
Flanders (former primary political entity)
Extent:
142 leaves : paper ; 277 x 208 (208 x 160) mm bound to 29 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/4q77q1976
Terms of Use:
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No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[France or Flanders]
Language:
French
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-3v: chapter headings.
2. fol. 4-142v: Vie de Ihesucrist.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in N. France or Flanders in 1454. See colophon on fol. 154v.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Owned soon after creation by Andre Ryneck, his arms in the lower margin of fol. 4 (a ram on red ground surmounted by a Catherine wheel and a cross). Given by Ryneck to a community of Poor Clares in 1481, donation inscription on fol. 3v: "Donne au nouviau convent des povres soers de sainte clare de par monsiegneur andreu de rineck lan mille cccclxxxi prijes pour ly." "New" convents of Poor Clares in Northern France around 1481 - possible beneficiaries of this gift - include Chauny (1480) and Lilles (1481). Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 369) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 604 (lot number written inside front cover).
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (BPL bookplate inside front cover, embossed on fol. 1-2, Cockerell's notes inside front cover.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada,volume I, page 923.
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: Du sacrement du corps ...
Collation: Paper, with watermarks: scales, similar to Briquet 2426, fol. i (19th-century paper) + 142 + i (19th-century paper) ; 1³ 2-18⁸ 9³ ; catchwords in red frame, lower center of final verso of each quire. Original Roman foliation, upper right corner of each recto, begins with [i] on f. 4, so reaches cxxxix instead of 142; modern pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page, used here for reference.
Layout: Single column, 32 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in blind.
Script: Written in a bâtarde script in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Chapters and books begin with 2-line red epigraphic capitals; Biblical quotes underlined red, sentence initials stroked red.
Binding: 19th-century green morocco over pasteboard; blind double-fillet border on covers, gilt-fillet turn-ins and board edges, spine gilt in compartments, with title labels "VIE/ JHESVCRIST/mMS. 1454"; brittle paper pastedowns and endleaves, joints weakening.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," in More Books III (1928): 69.
Notes (language):
In French.
Identifier:
06_01_020027
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med.29
MS G.31.72 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090771005