Nicholas Love, also known as Nicholas Luff, (died c. 1424) was the first prior and fourth rector of the Carthusian

Carthusian

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 house of Mount Grace Priory

Mount Grace Priory

Mount Grace Priory, in the parish of East Harlsey, North Yorkshire, England is today the best preserved and most accessible of the ten medieval Carthusian houses in England....

 in Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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 (although the original charter names Robert Tredwye

Robert Tredwye

Robert Tredwye was the first prior of Mount Grace Priory on its founding in 1398. He is attested in a medieval charter, created between 18 February and 20 April 1398, now held in the collection at Ripley Castle in Yorkshire....

 first prior). Love translated the "Meditationes Vitae Christi

The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ

The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ is an adaptation/translation of Pseudo-Bonaventura's Meditationes Vitae Christi into English by Nicholas Love, OCart, the Carthusian prior of Mount Grace Priory, written ca...

" (by Pseudo-Bonaventure

Pseudo-Bonaventura

The Pseudo-Bonaventura, or Pseudo-Bonaventure is the name given to the authors of a number of medieval devotional works which were believed at the time to be the work of Saint Bonaventure: "It would almost seem as if 'Bonaventura' came to be regarded as a convenient label for a certain type of...

, that is, attributed to St. Bonaventure) as "The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ

The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ

The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ is an adaptation/translation of Pseudo-Bonaventura's Meditationes Vitae Christi into English by Nicholas Love, OCart, the Carthusian prior of Mount Grace Priory, written ca...

". Around the year 1410, he submitted his translation to Thomas Arundel

Thomas Arundel

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, Archbishop of Canterbury

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, in conformity with the strictures of the Oxford Constitutions of 1407–09, which had forbidden all new translations of biblical

Bible

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 material in any form, without the submission of the material to the local bishop

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 for approval. The archbishop had taken this action in an attempt to stop the circulation of the Wycliffite translation

Wyclif's Bible

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 of the Bible and other heretical Wycliffite (Lollard) writings; Love's translation in fact includes a number of major additions to the original Latin

Latin

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 text, arguing specifically against the positions of John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe

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 and his followers on, e.g., the Church hierarchy, almsgiving, and the sacraments of Penance

Penance

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 and the Eucharist

Eucharist

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.