Details

Subject(s)

• Jesus Christ—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Jesus Christ—Meditations—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Kane MS. 21. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Meditations [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts—England—15th century [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Anglicana formata.
• Decoration: two 2-line initials A in gold, blue, green, and rose, and pink with three-quarter foliate border for list of chapter running titles, fol. 4. Latin and English scriptural quotations in red within the text.

Binding note

England, 19th century; binding by Francis Bedford (1800-1884), who operated his own bindery in London from 1850.

Language note

Text in Middle English and Latin.

Provenance

Kane MS. 21 is of composite origin. The text of Nicholas Love's Mirror was written by one scribe and decorated in the London area around 1430, while fols. 1v-3r and fols. 114v-117r are the work of two other scribes, the third perhaps being from Norfolk. The manuscript was sold at Sotheby's, London, at a sale beginning on 15 November 1911. Francis Edwards Booksellers, established in London (1855), purchased the manuscript at the Huth sale. In 1917, Grenville Kane (1854-1943), of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., purchased the manuscript from the London and New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). Kane's bookplate is on the inside front cover. The Kane Collection was acquired by the Princeton University Library from Kane's heirs in February 1946.

Source acquisition

Acquired; Estate of Grenville Kane; 1946.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 46-50

Cite as

Kane MS. 21, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

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