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Arundel MS 364

Record Id:

040-002039647

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002039280

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x0003dc

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Arundel MS 364

Title:

Scope & Content:

Vellum, 4to., ff. 223, xv. Cent.

1. The Mirror of the Life of Christ, from the Latin of Bonaventure, with a prologue. fol. 1. The Author of this version is unknown, but it must have been written after 1395, since Walter Hylton, Canon of Thurgastone, is mentioned as dead. See fol. 110. b.

2. An epilogue to the forementioned book, to which is appended, "A shorte tretys of the hyghest and moste worthy sacrament of Crystes blessyd body, and the mervayles there of," written for "the confusioun of alle false Lollardes and heretykes." fol. 204. The two preceding articles are printed by Caxton, without date.

3. "Vne Epistre quelle Johaii Gouer ad fait sur lez vertues de Virginte et de Matrimoine." fol. 223. The first leaf only remains; a perfect copy may be found in the Harl. Ms. 3869, fol. 357. b.

English Language, Early: The chief Mss. illustrative of the state of the language prior to the Year 1500, are to be found in the volumes marked.

includes:

f. 1 John Morton, an Englishman; flourished in the year 1410: The Mirror of the Life of Christ, from the Latin of Bonaventura, translated, as it is supposed, by John Morton.: Cent. xv.
f. 1 Saint Bonaventura,; Cardinal-bishop of Albano: The mirror of the Life of Christ, from the Latin of Bonaventura, by an unknown translator, supposed to be John Morton.: Cent. xv.
f. 205 John Morton, an Englishman; flourished in the year 1410: A short treatise upon Christ's body, written for the confusion of Lollards and hereticks, supposed to be by John Morton.: Cent. xv.
f. 223 John Gower, poet: Une Epitre quelle Johan Gouer ad fait sur lez vertues de Virginité et de Matrimoine.: Cent. xv.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Arundel Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002039280
040-002039647

Is part of:

Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts

Arundel MS 364 : Vellum, 4to., ff. 223, xv. Cent. 1. The Mirror of the Life of Christ, from the Latin of Bonaventure, with a prologue. fol. 1.…

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032-002039280[0365]/040-002039647

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

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Names:

Bonaventure, Saint, born Giovanni di Fidanza; scholastic theologian, 1221-1274,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000045724994X
Gower, John, poet, d 1408,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109397129
Morton, John, translator of Bonaventure's The Mirror of the Life of Christ, fl 1410