Collection ID: 0030 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Pore Caitif

Other related names

• Dearden, Robert R. (Robert Rowland), former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/26954544)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

(SPC) MSS LT 085
(Philadelphia, United States, Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center)

Alternate identifiers

• https://temple-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01TULI_ALMA21283079370003811&context=L&vid=TULI&search_scope=default_scope&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US

Publisher

Special Collections Research Center

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Origin

Place

England

Summary

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
   

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

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Occasional horizontal catchwords, lower right verso (fols. 33v, 73v, 80 bis verso, 84v)

Binding

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

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

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

Script

Gothic--textualis

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
   

Subjects topical

• Religious thought -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Christian life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Wycliffe, John, -1384

Genres

• Codices

Keywords

• 15th century
• Christian
• English
• Devotion
• England
• Illumination
• Gothic
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Prolog
• fol. 2r — The Bileeue
• fol. 13v — Prolog of the Heestis
• fol. 47v — Prolog of the Paternoster
• fol. 60r — The councel of Crist
• fol. 62v — Of vertuous pacience
• fol. 64r — Off temptacion
• fol. 65r — The chartre of heuene
• fol. 69v — Hors or armer of heuene
• fol. 76r — The name of Ihesu
• fol. 78r — The love of Ihesu
• Unnumbered recto — Of verri mekenesse
• fol. 82r — Off mannes will
• fol. 83r — Actif lyf [and] contemplatif lyf
• fol. 85r — Prolog on chastite
• fol. 87v — The myrror of chastite

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, unidentified
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Robert R. Dearden
• fol. 2r — Illuminated initial T
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Robert R. Dearden