Oleum effusum nomine tuum : manuscript, [between 1400 and 1450]
- Title
- Oleum effusum nomine tuum : manuscript, [between 1400 and 1450]
Alternative Title: Commentary on the Canticles
Alternative Title: Stimulus compassionis
Alternative Title: Devota meditacio de beneficiis dei
Alternative Title: Disputacio inter corpus et animam
Alternative Title: De mundi miseria
Alternative Title: Speculum humanae salvationis - Creator / Contributor
- Rolle, Richard, 1290?-1349
- Place of Origin
- England
- Language
- Latin
- Description
- Extent: 146 leaves, bound : vellum ; 24 cm.
print - Subjects
- Abstract
- 1. Speculum humanae salvationis, in an anglicana script (ff. 1-91) -- 2. Oleum effusum, part of Richard Rolle's Commentary on Canticles, in the same hand and script as previous section (93-113r) -- 3. Stimulus compassionis (incipit: Devota meditacio de beneficiis dei), in a bastard anglicana script (113v-139v) -- 4. Disputacio inter corpus et animam, in a fromal gothic bookhand (140-145) -- 5. De mundi miseria, in same hand and script as previous section (145-146).
- Genre
- Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1400-1450.
Poems.
Rules (layout features)
Parchment repairs.
Cut manuscripts (partial works)
Commentaries
Early works to 1800 - Notes
- Written in England by several unidentified hands, in several scripts; some red and blue ink flourishes; many of the initials in the first two sections are cut away. Parts brought together as early as 15th- or 16th century when contents were listed on front flyleaf.
In an 18th-cent. (?) green vellum binding, rebacked with brown calf.
In a tray case, 26 cm.
MS Lat 165. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Microfilm available in the Houghton Reading Room (reel 9 no. 4). - Series
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
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