Libro de la oración y meditación
Luis de Granada (1504-1588).
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1585
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 3010134
Summary
A manuscript copy of Richard Hopkins's translation of Libro de la oración y meditación by Luis de Granada. The translation, titled Of prayer and meditation, was first printed in Paris, 1582 (ESTC S100761). A later edition was printed in Rouen, 1584 (ESTC S105964). The colophon records the manuscript scribe and owner as Thomas Harwoode and that the text was completed on 20 August 1585. Pp. [23]-[46] and [57]-[58] are written in a more formal hand, though the text is continuous. Each page is ruled in black and the script is in red and black throughout. The illustrations are fairly crude representations of the Crucifixion, and appear as marginalia on pp. [23] and [57].
Bibliographic description
[240] p., bound : ill. ; 27cm. Provenance: Lot 1112 in Catalogue of the Valuable Library of … William Lord Berwick (1843). Former owner: Richard Heber (1773-1833). Manuscript note in pencil on front paste-down: "Heber". Lot 560 in Bibliotheca Heberiana sale (1836), part 11, p.59. Sale catalogue erroneously attributes authorship to Antonio de Guevara. Binding: Nineteenth-century[?] gilt-panelled goatskin[?]. Spine has green title and date labels: 'Harwoode's prayers and meditations' 'Manuscript 1585'. All edges gilt.
Makers and roles
Luis de Granada (1504-1588)., author Hopkins, Richard, translator Thomas Harwoode (fl.1585), scribe