Detail View: Medieval Collection: Man is born in sin

Image Number: 
JRL0922941dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 51
Previous Accession Number: 
R45387
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Man is born in sin
Parent Work Title: 
Pricke of Conscience with Richard of Maidstone commentary
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Prick of Conscience
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Prycke of Conscience
Creator Attribution: 
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
Display Creator: 
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
Date Created: 
15th century
Page: 
9v
Image Sequence Number: 
009v
Description: 
Pricke of Conscience: part one. English verse on how man is born in sin and on the middle period of man's life, with a large red thorn initial (th) and additional Latin text in red ink. The written space is 144 mm high in untidy anglicana formata, with lapses into current anglicana.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Language Code: 
lat-GB
Subject: 
Poetry, Medieval
Subject: 
Christian literature, English (Middle)
Subject: 
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered: 
England
People Covered: 
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
Item Height: 
180 mm
Item Width: 
115 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Hardy, John
Provenance: 
Day, Thomas, of Grys'
Provenance: 
Johnson, Maurice, Esq., Ayscough-Fee Hall, Co. Lincoln
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.14.
References: 
Parts of this catalogue have been reproduced from Ker, N.R., 'Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 402-3. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
Bibliographic Citation: 
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 'The pricke of conscience (Stimulus conscientiae): a Northumbrian poem by Richard Rolle de Hampole; copied and edited from mss. in the library of the British Museum, with an introd., notes, and glossarial index by Richard Morris.' (Berlin: A. Asher, 1863)
Cost: 
Bought from London bookseller Bernard Quaritch in 1919 for £36.00
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-06-10
Multi Page Number: 
140
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-08
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval