Accession number
PML 701
Object title
The myrroure of the blessyd lyf of Jhesu Cryste.
Uniform title
Meditationes vitae Christi. English.
Published
[Westminster] : William Caxton, [about 1489-1490]
Description
[148] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Collation: a-s⁸ t⁴: 148 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Colophon (leaf t3r): Emprynted by wyllyam caxton.
Date based on paper stocks (see BMC).
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.9 x 18.3 cm
PML copy leaves b2-4 with bottom edge repaired. Paper repaired (inscription abraded causing hole in paper) on leaf a8r with text on a8v replaced in manuscript; another repair affecting text on leaf i3r/v.
Printed in Caxton's type 5:113B.
Sometimes attributed to Pseudo-Bonaventura (cf. GW and ISTC) or Johannes de Caulibus (cf. BBFN Inc p.119f).
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Incipit Speculum vite Cristi. At the begynnynge of the prohemy of the booke that is cleped the myrroure of the blessyd lyf of Jhesu Cryste...
Translated by Nicholas Love.
Woodcuts.
Colophon (leaf t3r): Emprynted by wyllyam caxton.
Date based on paper stocks (see BMC).
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.9 x 18.3 cm
PML copy leaves b2-4 with bottom edge repaired. Paper repaired (inscription abraded causing hole in paper) on leaf a8r with text on a8v replaced in manuscript; another repair affecting text on leaf i3r/v.
Printed in Caxton's type 5:113B.
Sometimes attributed to Pseudo-Bonaventura (cf. GW and ISTC) or Johannes de Caulibus (cf. BBFN Inc p.119f).
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Incipit Speculum vite Cristi. At the begynnynge of the prohemy of the booke that is cleped the myrroure of the blessyd lyf of Jhesu Cryste...
Translated by Nicholas Love.
Woodcuts.
Binding
19th-century (ca. 1860?) English gilt-stamped red, hard-grained morocco over paper boards (27 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Speculum vite Cristi
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required, printed initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No notations in text. Pencil inscription that a copy sold at Sir Francis Freeling's sale (Evans, 25 Nov. 1836) for £25/10/0 (third front fly leaf verso).
Provenance
Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1878), Earl of Ashburnham, shelf mark: 29.C. (first fly leaf verso), his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 9 May 1898, lot 3454, to Pickering for: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 20a, 11/5/98 and price code: lwm/-/- +com (first fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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