Summary Drawing on diverse literary traditions, the author of the fourteenth-century Meditationes Vitae Christi transformed the Gospel accounts into an emotionally charged and vivid narrative that became one of the most popular texts of the late Middle Ages. Over the past few years, new theories about the authorship, date, and original language of the text have emerged, raising new questions about this text and its impact on late medieval art and spirituality. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume examine multiple aspects of the Meditationes history, from its possible authorship to its manuscript traditions to its reflections in art. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - Holly Flora, Tulane University, and Peter T th, British Library Fra Jacopo in the Archives: San Gimignano as a Context for the Meditations on the Life of Christ - Donal Cooper, University of Cambridge The Earliest Reference to the Meditationes Vitae Christi: New Evidence for its Date, Authorship, and Language - Peter T th, British Library Contemplation in the French and Occitan Versions of the Meditationes Vitae Christi - Maureen Boulton, University of Notre Dame The Italian Text of the Paris Manuscript of the Meditationes: Historigraphic Remarks and Further Perspectives - David Falvay, E tv s Lor nd University, Budapest Reading the Meditationes on the Mount of Light, Perugia - Renana Bartal, Tel Aviv University Feast, Fast, and the Feminine: Women at the Table in the Illustrated Meditationes - Holly Flora, Tulane University Meditations for a Married Man: The Snite MVC and the Elite Urban Male Reader - Dianne Phillips, Independent Scholar A Newly Discovered Illuminated Manuscript of the Meditationes vitae Christi Produced in Fifteenth-Century Veneto (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Reg. Lat. 478) - Lisandra Costiner, University of Oxford The Writer as Viewer: Recollecting Art in the Text of the Meditationes vitae Christi - Joanna Cannon, Courtauld Institute of Art Mixed Media: Questioning Format in Late Medieval Pictorial Vita Christi Cycles - Lynn Ransom, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania