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Pore Caitif (SPC) MSS LT 085
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Manuscript Overview
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Abstract

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.

Physical Description

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)

Layout

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

Script

Gothic--textualis

Decoration

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.

Notes

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.

Keywords
15th century
Christian
English
Devotion
England
Illumination
Gothic
Devotion
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center

Place of Origin

England

Date

15th century

Binding

Sixteenth-century blind-tooled black Moroccan leather with two pairs of leather ties

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Provenance

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

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Place of Origin

England

Date

15th century

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Provenance

Dame Margaret Hasley, Sister in the Order of Minoresses, presented this work to another Sister

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

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.

Notes

Parchment flyleaves, the outer two possibly contemporaneous with the sixteenth-century binding and the inner two possibly earlier pastedowns

Script note

Gothic--textualis

Decoration Note

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.

References
Binding Images

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.

Keywords
15th century
Christian
English
Devotion
England
Gothic
Devotion
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
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