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Manuscripts, Medieval -- England

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Medieval Manuscripts created in England.

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MS 91: Meditationes Vitae Christi by Pseudo-Bonaventure, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 91
Contents This manuscript is an anonymous prose translation of an early 14th century devotional text, Meditationes Vitae Christi. This work was traditionally attributed to St Bonaventure, but it has since been shown to have been composed by a Franciscan friar in Tuscany in the 14th century. The original text, from which the 15th century English translation derives, was a very popular Franciscan devotional text. Hundreds of manuscript copies exist of the Latin original,...
Dates: 15th century