Detail View: Medieval Collection: Guy of Warwick Speculum
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Image Number:
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JRL0924327dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 50
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Previous Accession Number:
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R45388
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Guy of Warwick Speculum
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Parent Work Title:
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Pricke of Conscience; Guy of Warwick Speculum
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Prick of Conscience
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Prycke of Conscience
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Date Created:
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14th century [late]
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Page:
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219
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Image Sequence Number:
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219
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Description:
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Guy of Warwick Speculum: Alquin's sermon to Guy. Alquin tells Guy to be repentant and do good deeds. Sections in Latin are introduced with an initial in blue or red ink and underlined in red. The written space is 190 x 87 mm, 33 long lines and the hand is anglicana formata.
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Language Code:
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lat-GB
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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Poetry, Medieval
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Subject:
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Christian literature, English (Middle)
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Subject:
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Devotional literature, English (Middle)
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Vellum
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Time Period Covered:
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1200 - 1500 CE
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Places Covered:
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England
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Item Height:
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250 mm
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Item Width:
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149 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Farmer, R., d. 1798, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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Provenance:
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Clerke, Andrew
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Provenance:
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Held, Thomas [?]
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Provenance:
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Harford, C.H.
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Provenance:
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Le Neve, Peter, of Norfolk
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Provenance:
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Martin, Thomas
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.14.
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References:
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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. 401-2. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
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Bibliographic Citation:
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Morrill, Georgiana Lea, 'Speculum Gy de Warewyke: an English poem with introduction, notes, and glossary, here for the first time printed and first edited from the manuscripts by Georgiana Lea Morrill.' (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1898)
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Notes:
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The authorship is very often ascribed to Richard Rolle of Hampole, a prolific 14th-century hermit and mystic, but modern scholarship has cast doubt over this assertion and has instead ascribed the work to a different and anonymous writer.
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Cost:
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Bought from London bookseller Bernard Quaritch for £35.00 in 1919.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-06-25
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Multi Page Number:
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1155
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2009-08
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Medieval
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