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Detailed record for Additional 37049
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| Title |
The Carthusian Miscellany (Religious Prose and Verse) in Northern English, including an epitome (summary) of Mandeville's travels |
| Origin |
England, N. |
| Date |
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
English |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Decoration |
7 full-page tinted drawings in colours with highlighting (ff. 1v, 2, 19, 38v, 72v, 73, 77v). 27 large tinted drawings in colours with highlighting, accompanying the texts, as follows: 2 three-quarter-page miniatures (ff. 2v, 17r); 6 two-thirds-page miniatures (ff. 22, 27v, 32v, 36v, 79v, 87); 4 half-page-miniatures (ff. 3, 23, 29v, 74v); 15 one-third-page miniatures (ff. 11-16v, 45, 69v, 74). 22 column-width miniatures, all but the first on versos and 20 full-page diagrams of trees on rectos in ‘The Desert of Religion’ (ff. 46-66v). Smaller miniatures inserted in the text or in margins, accompanying the text. Rubrics and initials in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
270 x 200 ( 230/5 x 140/60). |
| Official foliation |
ff. i + 96 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end). |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. White leather spine with blue cloth covers. |
| Provenance |
A Yorkshire or Lincolnshire Carthusian monastery (Axholme, Mountgrace or Kingston-upon-Hull?): the dialect is Northern and the contents suggest a Carthusian origin.
On f. [iv] verso is an old number 94.
A woodcut of the Ego Dormio image (f. 30v) was owned by W.T. Freemantle of Barbot Hall, Rotherham, and was given to him 'by a friend who had discover'd the manuscript, apparently abroad..' (see Allen, Writings (1927), pp. 307-08, n. 2).
Bought by the British Museum from L. Rosenthal, bookseller of Munich on 13 May 1905. |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage on Digitised Manuscripts with list of contents and image descriptions at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts |
| Select bibliography |
John Trevisa, Dialogus inter Militem et Clericum, Richard fitzRalph's Sermon: 'Defensio Curatorum', and Methodius: 'Ye Bngnngng of ye World and ye Ende of Worldes', ed. by Aaron Jenkins Perry, Early English Text Society, Original Series, 167 (London: Early English Text Society, 1925)..
Speculum Christiani: A Middle English Religious Treatise of the 14th century, ed. by Gustaf Holmstedt, Early English Text Society, Original Series, 182 (London: Early English Text Society, 1933), pp. xciii-xciv.
R. H. Bowers, ‘Middle English Religious Verses on the Appearances of Christ’, Anglia, 70 (1952), 430-33.
Thomas W. Ross, 'Five Fifteenth-Century ‘Emblem’ Verses from Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 37049' Speculum, 32 (1957) 274-82.
Ernest C. York, ‘Dramatic Form in a Late Middle English Narrative’, Modern Language Notes, 72 (1957), 484-85.
R. H. Bowers, Three Middle English Religious Poems University of Florida Monographs, Humanities, 12 (1963). [text of the"Meditation on the Passion", beginning on f. 28.]
Francis, Wormald, ‘Some Popular Miscellanies and their Rich Relations’, in Miscellanea Pro Arte: Festschrift für Hermann Schnitzler (1965) 279-85.
Carlo Bertelli, 'The Image of Pity in Santa Croce in Gerusalemme', in Essays presented to Rudolf Wittkower on his sixty-fifth birthday, ed. by Douglas Fraser and others, 2 vols (London: Phaidon, 1967).pp. 40-55.
Karl J. Holtgen, ‘Arbor, Scala und Fons vitae: Vorformen devotionaler Embleme in einer mittelenglischen Handschrift (B.M. Add. MS. 37049)’, in Chaucer und seine Zeit: Symposion fur Walter F. Schirmer, Buchreihe der Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 14, ed. by Arno Esch (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1968), pp. 355-91.
Jennifer O'Reilly, Studies in the Iconography of the Virtues and the Vices in the Middle Ages (New York: Garland, 1988, print of an unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Nottinham, 1972), pl. 17.
Klaus P. Jankovsky, ‘A View into the Grave: ‘A Disputacion betwyx the Body and Wormes’ in British Museum MS Add. 37049’, in TAIUS, 7 (1974) 137-59.
James Hogg, 'The Charterhouses of Buxheim, Ittingen and La Valsainte', Analecta Cartusiana, 38 (1977), p. 9.
James Hogg, ‘Unpublished Texts in the Carthusian Northern Middle English Religious Miscellany British Library MS. ADD. 37049’, inEssays in Honor of Erwin Stürzl on his Sixtieth Birthday, ed. by James Hogg (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1980), pp. 241-84.
‘An Illustrated Yorkshire Carthusian Religious Miscellany’, ed. by James Hogg, Salzburg: Institut fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1981, Analecta Cartusiana, 95 (1981).
James Hogg, ‘Selected Texts on Heaven and Hell from the Carthusian Miscellany, British Library MS Add. 37049’, in Zeit, Tod, und Ewigkeit in der Renaissance Literatur, Analecta Cartusiana, 117 (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1987), I, pp. 63-89.
Louis Cameron, ‘Two Middle English Doomsday Poems’, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 92 (1991) 43-46.
Dan Embree, ‘The Fragmentary Chronicle in British Library, Additional MS 37049’, Manuscripta, 37 (1993) 193-200.
The Wound of Love: A Carthusian Miscellany, Cistercian Studies, 157 (Kalamazoo MI: Cistercian Publications, 1994).
F. N. M. Diekstra, ‘British Library MS 37049, Fol 96r-96v: A Mutilated Tract on God’s Mercy and Justice and Material for its Reconstruction’, English Studies, 75 (1994) 214-22.
Takami Matsuda, Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1995), pp. 243-44.
John B. Friedman, Northern English Book Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), p, 244, pl. 46.
Andrew Prescott, Michelle Brown and Richard Masters, 'The Survey of Illuminated Manuscripts', in Towards the Digital Library: The Initiatives for Access Programme, ed. by Leona Carpenter, Simon Shaw and Andrew Prescott (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 130-147 (p. 133).
Jessica Caroline Brantley,. ‘Reading in the Wilderness: A Contextual Study of a Carthusian Miscellany (British Library MS 37049)’, Dissertation Abstracts, 61 (2001) [UCLA dissertation]
Marlene Villalobos Hennessy, ‘Morbid Devotions: Reading the Passion of Christ in a late Medieval Miscellany: London, British Library MS 37049’, Dissertation Abstracts, 62 (2002) 3384-85. [Columbia University dissertation, 2001].
Marlene Villalobos Hennessy, ‘The Remains of the Royal Dead in an English Carthusian Manuscript, London, British Library MS 37049’, Viator, 33 (2002) 310-54.
Marlene Villalobos Hennessy, ‘Passion Devotion, Penitential Reading, and the Manuscript Page: The ‘Hours of the Cross’ in London, British Library, MS Additional 37049’, Mediaeval Studie, 66 (2004), 213-52.
Douglas Gray, ‘London, British Library, Additional MS 37049: A Spiritual Encyclopedia’, in Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale, ed. by Helen Barr and Ann M. Hutchinson (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), pp. 99-116.
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: British Library, 2005), p. 300.
Marlene Villalobos Hennessy, ‘Three Marian Texts Including a Prayer for a Lay-Brother in London, British Library MS Additional 37049’, in English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700, 14, Regional Manuscripts 1200-1700, ed. by A.S.G. Edwards (London: British Library, 2008), pp. 163-79.
Studies in Carthusian Monasticism in the Late Middle Ages, ed by J. M. Luxford, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008) p. 368.
Domenico Pezzini, The Translation of Religious Texts in the Middle Ages: Tracts and Rules, Hymns and Saints' Lives, Studies in Language and Communication, 69 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2008) pp. 255-61.
Adrienne Williams Boyarin, Miracles of the Virgin in Medieval England: Law and Jewishness in Marian Legends, (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 9, 32-3, 115-37, 139-40, 181-87).
Ralph Hannah, The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle, A Descriptive Catalogue (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2010), no. 41.
Michael Benskin, Margaret Laing, Vasilis Karaiskos, and Keith Williamson, 'An Electronic Version of A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English, ‘eLALME’ ' (Edinburgh, 2013): http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/elalme/elalme.html, accessed 10 June 2013 [LP 225; Grid 482 370 (Notts: ff. 2v-45v); 1.102 (NW Lincs: ff. 26v-27; LP 410; Grid 439 440 (WRY: ff. 46v-66v)].
Ashby Kinch, Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 58-68.
Richard Morris's Prick of Conscience: A Corrected and Amplified Reading Text, ed by Ralph Hannah and Sarah Wood, EETS O.S. 342 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 382.
L. Mooney, D. Mosser, E. Solopova and D. Radcliff, 'The Digital Index of Middle English Verse' [the entry for the present manuscript is at: http://www.dimev.net/Records.php?MSS=BLAdd37049, accessed 10 June 2013].
Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Nigel F. Palmer, The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin, 2 vols (Dietikon-Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 2015), I, p. 366. |
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f. 1v
Mary |
f. 2
Christ |
f. 3
Jerusalem |
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f. 9v
Babylon and Rome |
f. 12
Noah's sons |
f. 13v
Knights in battle |
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f. 14
Battle scene |
f. 15
Battle scene |
f. 19
Death |
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f. 19v
Man, unicorn and dragon |
f. 20
Sacred Heart |
f. 22
St Hugh |
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f. 23
The Passion |
f. 24
Christ's wounds |
f. 25
Tree of life |
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f. 25v
Virgin and Child |
f. 31v
Death crowned |
f. 37
The Crucifixion |
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f. 60v
Praying |
f. 61v
Wounds of Christ |
f. 62v
Diagram of the virtues |
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f. 67v
Christ crucified |
f. 68v
The Passion |
f. 72v-73
Salvation |
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f. 80v
Five wise and five foolish virgins |
f. 81
Souls of the faithful |
f. 96
Robed figures |
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