LEADER 03587cam a2200505 i 4500001 99111942213506421 005 20210506095851.0 008 190312q13001400enk 000 p eng d 035 (NjP)11194221-princetondb 035 |z(NjP)Voyager11194221 040 NjP |beng |erda |cNjP 041 enm |hlat |hfre 043 a-is---awba---e-uk-enn-us-nj 050 4 BT300 |b.M4413 245 00 Speculum vitae ; |bThe siege of Jerusalem. 246 30 Siege of Jerusalem 264 0 [London, England] ; |c[between 1300 and 1400] 300 1 volume (i, 110, i leaves) : |bparchment ; |c360 x 275 mm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 530 Also available in an electronic version. 500 1st work: an anonymous mid-14th-century Middle English translation of Pseudo-Bonaventure's Meditationes passionis Christi; 2nd work: The Siege of Jerusalem, alliterative version, lines 1-1143. 500 Script: Anglicana formata, the work of one scribe, but heavily corrected by a later 15th-century hand. 500 Decoration: Each of the three works opens with a 4-line blue initial with red pen flourishes. Sections within each work open with similar 2-line initials. 563 England, 19th century. Tooled and gilt-stamped parchment over beveled wooden boards (8 mm thick), with leather ties. Sewn on 5 raised bands; endbands with secondary sewing in olive green. 561 Taylor MS. 11 was written by a scribe of West Yorkshire origin, probably in Yorkshire, and may have belonged to the Augustinian Priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at Bolton, West Yorkshire. The American antiquarian bookseller Laurence C. Witten (1926-1995), of New Haven, Connecticut, acquired the manuscript and sold it to Robert H. Taylor (1908-1985), of Princeton, New Jersey, Class of 1930. Taylor's blue oval bookplate is on the inside front cover. His bequest to the Princeton University Library, 1985. 541 |cGiftof Robert H. Taylor. 510 4 Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, |cvolume 1, pages 426-428. 524 Taylor MS. 11, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. 600 00 Jesus Christ |vBiography |vMeditations |vEarly works to 1800. 600 00 Jesus Christ |vPoetry |vEarly works to 1800. 651 0 Jerusalem |xHistory |ySiege, 70 A.D. |vPoetry |vEarly works to 1800. 650 0 English poetry |yMiddle English, 1100-1500. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043933 650 0 Manuscripts, English (Middle) |zNew Jersey |zPrinceton. 655 7 Manuscripts |zEngland |y14th century. |2aat 655 7 Poetry. |2lcgft |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026481 655 7 Meditations. |2lcgft |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2015026056 655 7 Poetry. |2lcgft |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026481 700 0 Bonaventure, |cSaint, Cardinal, |dapproximately 1217-1274, |eattributed name. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043613 700 1 Taylor, Robert H., |d1908-1985, |edonor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019069487 710 2 Princeton University. |bLibrary. |kManuscript. |nTaylor MS. 11. 730 02 |iContainer of (expression):Meditationes vitae Christi. |lEnglish (Middle English) 730 02 Siege of Jerusalem (Middle English poem) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94007509 856 40 |3Digitized microfilm copy: |uhttps://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/7w62fd56z 902 yw |bo |6t |7m |dv |f1 |e20190312