Manuscripts, English
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Manuscripts entirely or partially in English.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Meditationes Vitae Christi by Pseudo-Bonaventure, 15th century
Item
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
The Regiment of Princes, by Thomas Hoccleve, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 202
Contents
Thomas Hoccleve was a English poet and goverment clerk in the Office of the Privy Seal in the first quarter of the 15th century. Hoccleve was author of several other works, but that contained in MS 202 is his 'Regiment of Princes', dedicated to Prince Henry, the future king Henry V. Given that the poem is dedicated to Henry V as 'Prince', and from some internal evidence in the poem, it is possible to date the composition of Hoccleve's original 'Regiment of Princes' to c. 1410-1413. MS 202 is...
Dates:
15th century
Vita Crysty (Vol. 2) by Ludolph of Saxony, 16th century
Item
Identifier: MS 22
Contents
Vita Chrysty is a sixteenth-century English translation of Ludolph of Saxony's Vita Christi from the second half of the fourteenth century. The original text by Ludolph of Saxony includes a biography of Christ, as well as moral and spiritual instruction and prayers. In this, Ludolph combined the work from over sixty earlier Christian writers. The influence and popularity of Ludolph of Saxony's original text is demonstrated by...
Dates:
16th century