LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Manuscript in English, n.d. [early 17th Century], in a neat secretary hand, comprising lives of approximately 43 saints arranged in order of their feast days, index, ink on paper, ruled margins, 93 leaves, folio (450 x 260mm) , numbered, calf backed boards (split at hinges); [with] two manuscripts in Latin, n.d. [l7th Century], the first 'Physiologiae universalis pars quarta [- pars sexta]', including three full-page diagrams showing the spheres, the positions of the earth in relation to the sun, and solar and lunar eclipses, as well as three smaller diagrams, 175 leaves, 4to , boards, remnants of ties (sprung); the second containing an 'Introductio ad Logicam' and a 'Universal moral philosophy', including a table showing 'Arbor praedicamentalis substantie', together 389 pages, 4to , limp vellum, ties. The detailed interest in hagiography in an English manuscript of the early 17th Century strongly implies a recusant connection -- an inference backed up by the unabashedly Catholic nature of the quoted sources, including 'The admirable life of St Lidwina virgin taken out of that w[hi]ch was written by John Brugmauns a Franciscan Friar', as well as two lives drawn from works by 'Card[inal] Baromiis [?]'. By far the most extensive lives are those of Elizabeth of Hungary (30 pages) and Catherine of Sienna (47 pages).
LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Manuscript in English, n.d. [early 17th Century], in a neat secretary hand, comprising lives of approximately 43 saints arranged in order of their feast days, index, ink on paper, ruled margins, 93 leaves, folio (450 x 260mm) , numbered, calf backed boards (split at hinges); [with] two manuscripts in Latin, n.d. [l7th Century], the first 'Physiologiae universalis pars quarta [- pars sexta]', including three full-page diagrams showing the spheres, the positions of the earth in relation to the sun, and solar and lunar eclipses, as well as three smaller diagrams, 175 leaves, 4to , boards, remnants of ties (sprung); the second containing an 'Introductio ad Logicam' and a 'Universal moral philosophy', including a table showing 'Arbor praedicamentalis substantie', together 389 pages, 4to , limp vellum, ties. The detailed interest in hagiography in an English manuscript of the early 17th Century strongly implies a recusant connection -- an inference backed up by the unabashedly Catholic nature of the quoted sources, including 'The admirable life of St Lidwina virgin taken out of that w[hi]ch was written by John Brugmauns a Franciscan Friar', as well as two lives drawn from works by 'Card[inal] Baromiis [?]'. By far the most extensive lives are those of Elizabeth of Hungary (30 pages) and Catherine of Sienna (47 pages).
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