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The Pore Caitif was a Middle English late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century devotional text consisting of tracts about the Creed, the Ten Commandments, and the Paternoster, and intended for home use by the laity.
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+97+ii; 114 x 170 mm bound to 120 x 175 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, with one unnumbered leaf between 80 and 81; Collation: Structure uncertain; Catchwords: Occasional horizontal catchwords, lower right verso (fols. 33v, 73v, 80 bis verso, 84v)
Written in one column of twenty-five lines; frame-ruled in faint ink with double upper horizontal bounding line; pricking visible on some leaves; running headings of treatise titles in upper margins; Biblical citations and a few scribal insertions or corrections in side margins; written area: 125 x 70 mm
Gothic--textualis
One illuminated three-line letter in pink and blue on gold ground at the beginning of the first treatise (fol. 2r); three-line blue initials with red flourishing throughout; rubrication in red
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Parchment flyleaves, the outer two possibly contemporaneous with the sixteenth-century binding and the inner two possibly earlier pastedowns
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
England
15th century
Sixteenth-century blind-tooled black Moroccan leather with two pairs of leather ties
Middle English (1100-1500)
Dame Margaret Hasley, Sister in the Order of Minoresses, presented this work to another Sister (rubric, fol. 96v); unidentified small engraved bookplate inside front cover; Robert R. Dearden, Oak Lane (bookplate, front flyleaf recto); purchased by Temple University in 1968
England
15th century
Middle English (1100-1500)
Dame Margaret Hasley, Sister in the Order of Minoresses, presented this work to another Sister
The Pore Caitif was a Middle English late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century devotional text consisting of tracts about the Creed, the Ten Commandments, and the Paternoster, and intended for home use by the laity.
Parchment flyleaves, the outer two possibly contemporaneous with the sixteenth-century binding and the inner two possibly earlier pastedowns
Gothic--textualis
One illuminated three-line letter in pink and blue on gold ground at the beginning of the first treatise (fol. 2r); three-line blue initials with red flourishing throughout; rubrication in red
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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