BONAVENTURA pseudo Love Nicholas [Mirror of the Blessed Lif

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(BONAVENTURA, pseudo-.) Love, Nicholas. [Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ.] manuscript in middle english, written in Gothic hand in brown ink with paragraph marks in red and blue and sidenotes in red, on vellum. with six divisional initials in blue with penwork decoration in red. 22 discontinuous leaves. 298x210 mm, later 19th-century morocco, spine scuffed, joints heavily worn; traces of mold in margins throughout, scattered marginal tears or defects not affecting text. England, 15th century

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Fragment of a manuscript of Love's early 15th-century Middle English version of Meditationes vitae Christi, a popular text on the life of Christ once considered the work of the Franciscan theologian Saint Bonaventura (1217-74) and now sometimes ascribed to the Franciscan author Johannes de Caulibus of San Gimignano (fl. circa 1300). Formerly in the collection of Professor David R. Bitzer of the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. De Ricci & Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada II, 2179.