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Record Id:: 032-004593029
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:: 032-004593029
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Format:: ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89792
Title:: Arma Christi
Scope & Content:: A collection of devotional texts including Arma Christi, written by Theodericus Werken, a Dutch-born scribe resident in London from c. 1450, and decorated by one or more English artists. ff. 1r–6v: John Lydgate, ‘Kalendar’: ‘Ihesu lord fo þi holy Circumcision / In þe bigynnynge of þe newe yere’ (Digital Index of Middle English Verse (www.dimev.net), hereafter DIMEV, no. 2863-8). A preceding quire seems to be missing. ff. 7r–10v: ‘O Vernicle’, verse meditations on the Instruments of Christ’s Passion, or Arma Christi: ‘O Vernicle I honoure hym and the / That the made thorow his priute…’ (DIMEV 4083-1). ff. 10v–11r: A prayer of thanksgiving for the Redemption: ‘I Thanke the lord that thow me wrought / And with stronge peynes þow me bought…’ (DIMEV 2290-5). ff. 11r–11v: The Wounds of Christ as Remedies against the Deadly Sins: ‘With scharp thornes þat beth kene / My hede was crowned ye may sene…’ (DIMEV 6744-8). ff. 11v–12r: Indulgence for the Arma Christi devotions: ‘The armes of [crist?] both god and man / Seynt pieter þe pope discryued hem…’ (DIMEV 5196-3). ff. 12v–13v: The Fifteen O’s of Christ, ‘O Ihesu criste lorde euerlastynge swetnesse / Owre verray loue and hele of oure synne…’ (DIMEV 3941-3). ff. 13v–16r: The Fifteen O’s, ‘Ihesu þat madest þe heuenes clere / Enlumined wiþ sterres bright…’ (DIMEV 3947-1). ff. 17r–19r: Litany (to the Cross, God the Father, the Trinity, the Virgin Mary, angels, apostles, saints, etc.), ‘Glorious crosse þat with þe holy blode / Of criste ihesu halewyd was by grace…’ (DIMEV 1519-7). f. 19r–v: A prayer to Jesus, ‘Now criste iheu soþefast preest & king / And for mankynde moos–e worthi werriour…’ (DIMEV 3723-1). ff. 19v–20v: Richard de Caistre’s hymn, ‘Ihesu for hem I the beseche / That wrathen þi in any wyse…’ (DIMEV 2869-16). ff. 21v–22v: An orison to the Virgin Mary in the Speculum Christiani (Octaua Tabula), ‘Mary moder wel thow be / Mary moder thenke on me…’ (DIMEV 3433-41). ff. 22v–23v: ‘Septem gaudia beate Marie’, ‘Gaude of virgins þe fresshest floure / In maydenhede a lantern of odoure…’ (DIMEV 1493-1). ff. 23v–24r: ‘An Orisoun to þe fyue Ioyes of vre lady’, ‘Mary moder mayden meke ffor þat ioy I the beseke…’ (DIMEV 3432-4). ff. 24r–25r: John Lydgate, paraphrase of the Pater Noster, ‘Glorious fader þat art in heuen / kepe vs þi childer that thow has wrouȝt…’ (DIMEV 4308-2). ff. 25r–26r: John Lydgate, ‘Salutacio Angelica’, ‘Hayle glorious and heuen queen / Crouned and reyned in the blysful cage…’ (DIMEV 1712-2). ff. 26r–46v: Maydestone’s version of the Penitential Psalms, ‘Lord in thin argure [sic] vptake me nouȝt / And in þi wrath blame þou nouȝt me…’ (DIMEV 3207-10). ff. 46v–48v: Litany, ‘Kyrieleyson haue mercy good lorde / Cristeleyson we crye now to þe…’ (DIMEV 3016-1). ff. 49r–51v: Meditation on the Passion, ‘Ihesu þat hast me dere bought / Wryte now goostly in my thought…’ (DIMEV 2915-10). ff. 52r–53r: Meditation on the Passion, ‘Ihesu þat hast al þis world I wrought / And of a clene virgyn so take oure kynde…’ (DIMEV 2901-2). ff. 53r–53v: A prayer by the Seven Times Christ shed his Blood, ‘Now now ihesu for þi circumcision / when þou was kut so in flesch and skyn…’ (DIMEV 3786-4). ff. 53v–54v: An added excerpt from Thomas Benson (d. 1516), ‘A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen out of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges of Holy Men’: ‘[B]lessed Ihesu Criste our lord god and savyour whiche I knowe well com in to this worlde not for them that wer juste & rightfull bot for synners to redeme theme by they dethe…’ f. 54r– v: ‘Almightie and everlasting lord god Ihesu Crist I worship the, I glorifie the, I thank the now and ever shall …’. f. 54v: A prayer for St Brigit of Sweden: ‘This short prayer folowing taught oue lorde saint Brigitt: Say ye them ofte in the day. / Domine Ihesu Christe ego cognosco me graviter pecasse … Pater noster amen’. Decoration: 2 half-page miniatures with ornamented borders: f. 7r: The Veil of Veronica. f. 12v: Resurrection of Christ. 23 small (4–5 line) rectangular miniatures at the beginning of each verse of ‘O Vernicle’ (ff. 7r–10r) with the Instruments of Christ’s Passion: f. 7r: The Knife of Circumcision. f. 7v: The Pelican in Piety; The Thirty Coins; The Lantern; and The Swords and Clubs. f. 8r: The Reed; the Hand pulling Christ’s hair and the Hand slapping Christ’s face; the Veil before His Eyes, and the Seamless Tunic and the Purple Garment. f. 8v: The Rod and the Scourges, the Crown of Thorns, the Pillar with the Cord, the Footprints of the Savior (in the form of the wooden cross). f. 9r: The Nails, the Hammer, and the Vessel with Gall. f. 9v: The Sponge, the Lance, the Ladder, and the Tongs. f. 10r: Instruments of Passion: the Jew spitting in the face of Christ, the Cross that Christ carried, and the Sepulcher of Christ. Small (2-4 line) initials in colours and gold, the larger ones with penwork and gold ivy leaves spraying into the margin, at the beginning of some verses or new sections. Small (1 line) initials in red or blue ink at the verse divisions.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:: Additional Manuscripts
Longleat House MSS
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Record Type (Level):: Fonds
Extent:: 1 volume
Digitised Content:: https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/man_10000037.0x000001
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Languages:: English, Middle
Latin
Scripts:: Latin
Start Date:: 1460
End Date:: 1469
Date Range:: 1460s
Era:: CE
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Physical Characteristics:: Material: Parchment. Dimensions: 182 x 128 mm (text space 135 x 87 mm). Layout: 1 column, 30-31 lines per page. Foliation: ff. iii (unfoliated modern paper endleaves) + 54 + ii (unfoliated modern paper endleaves. Script: Gothic textura, by Thomas Werken; Gothic (f. 53v); Bastard Secretary (ff. 53v–54v). Binding: Longleat House, 19th century, dark green leather tooled in gold with marbled endpapers, signed by Tuckett, binder to the Queen.
Custodial History:: Daniel W. Mosser, ‘Longleat House MS 30, T. Werken, and Thomas Betson’, Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History, 15 (2012), 319–55. Third Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen's most excellent Majesty for H.M.S.O, 1872), p. 181.
Material Type:: Archives and Manuscripts
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