• Material is open for research.
• Manuscript, on parchment, in a single cursive gothic bookhand, of this popular Latin devotional work on the life of Christ. Long attributed to St. Bonaventure, the work is now considered to be by the fourteenth-century Franciscan Johannes de Caulibus. This version, copied in England, contains the three "Canticle chapters" often omitted in later copies.
• Former owners include: John Enderby; Cuthbert Dale; Francis Dale; Rev. Matthew Snow; John Paget; Sir John Paget; Joseph Pope. Bergandal Collection of Medieval Manuscripts (Bergandal 27). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Sotheby's sale 2011 July 5, lot 88) on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2012.
• Anotations: numerous corrections and additions in a contemporary or near-contemporary hand, apparently the records of a collation of this copy of the text against another version.
• Layout: laid out in double columns, ruled in plummet.
• Script: written in a single cursive gothic bookhand.
• Decoration: numerous two-line initials in blue and red.
• Binding: modern brown calf over contemporary wooden boards (leaving original lacing paths visible).
• Johannes de Caulibus, Meditationes vitae Christi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Subjects:

• Jesus Christ -- Meditations.
• Jesus Christ -- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
• Johannes, de Caulibus, 14th cent.
• Franciscans.
• Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
• Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.
• Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- 15th century.
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.