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ff. 1-74v. Speculum Christiani. Incipit: De fide catholica dicitur in simbolo athanasii. Quicumque vult salvus esse . . In heuen schall dwelle all cristyn men/ That knowe and kepe godis byddynges ten. Explicit: Gregorius, Nullum sacrificium ita placet deo sicut zelus animarum. Explicit Speculum Christiani. Latin; English. IMEV 1491, 4150, 2233.5, 2167, 1342 and 2119 with folio numbers decreased by 3 because of re-foliation. G. Holmstedt, ed., Speculum Christiani, EETS os 182 (London 1933), sometimes attributed to Thomas Watton (or Wotton). Text is preceded by a prologue, " Ieronimus, In principio cuiuslibet operis premitte oracionem dominicam et signum crucis in fronte +. In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti. Amen. Magna differencia est inter predicacionem et doctrinam . . ." and a chapter list; text itself begins on f. 4. ff. 74v-75v. [Patristic excerpts]. Incipit: Si aliquos moveritis contra deum et iusticiam manifeste delinquere et tam magni tiranni fuerunt. Explicit: Thobias 3o , Omnia consilia tua in ipso permaneant. Amen. Latin. A series of short passages quoting from Chrysostom, Augustine and the Bible, also found immediately following the Speculum Christiani in, e.g., London, Brit. Lib. Add. 10052 and Add. 21202. A transcription of this and the following text in V. Gillespie, "The literary form of the Middle English Pastoral Manual with particular reference to the Speculum Christiani and some related texts," unpublished D. Phil. thesis (Oxford 1981). ff. 75v-76; ff. 76v-77v blank. [Hugh of St. Victor?] [De tribus vocibus mundi, Excerpts]. Incipit: Prima vox dicit Accipe, Secunda dicit redde, Tercia dicit Fuge. Explicit: fugit impius quoniam ita est in securitate impius pavidus sicut iustus in supplicio securus et cetera. Rubric: De tribus vocibus mundi. Latin. Also found immediately after the preceding two texts in, e.g., London, Brit. Lib. Add. 10052 and Add. 21202. f. 78; f. 78v blank. Water Imperiall [i.e. Medical recipe]. Incipit: A precious water of all odyre waters . . . for all maner of poysoun or pestelense . . . Rubric: Water Imperiall. English. Added in a mixed hand on an otherwise blank, but ruled, leaf, s. XVex. Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Anglicana formata. Layout: 1-9⁸ 10⁶. Catchwords, some in brown or red ink frames; 21 long lines, ruled in lead with top and bottom 2 lines full across; pricking visible in the 3 outer margins. Span folios: ff. 1-78v. Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 1, 10-line letter I, in gold on green and pink cusped ground with sprays of colored kidney leaves, green tendrils and gold motifs (damaged). 3- and 2-line initials in blue with red flourishing; ladders on f. 45v for the ascent to Heaven or descent to Hell in red and in ink of the text. By the same hand as London, Brit. Lib. Add. 10052 and Add. 21202, also copies of the Speculum Christiani, and textually related to HM 124. Assigned Date: s. XVmed. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/9/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound, s. XV, in leather dyed pink over bevelled oak boards; sewn on 4 bands; remains of a fore edge clasp closing to pin on back cover; top edge in red; rebacked. HM 124. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Christian life--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Written in England in the middle of the fifteenth century by a scribe who produced 2 other known copies of this text. Ownership notes in the volume: ff. 33 and 68, s. XVI, "Willelmus"; ff. ii and 1, s. XVII-XVIII, "Sa. Rooper"; f. i, s. XVIII, "JGL." Erasure of possession note on f. iii verso. Sotheby's, 11 June 1923, lot 89A to Barnard. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington, ca. 1924, evidently from Maggs, as a typed description impressed with their seal accompanies the manuscript.
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