Detail View: Medieval Collection: Prick of Conscience
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Image Number:
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Brotherton_500_027
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Reference Number:
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Brotherton Collection MS 500
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Image Title:
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Prick of Conscience
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Parent Work Title:
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Prick of Conscience
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Creator Attribution:
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Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
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Date Created:
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14th-15th century [1380-1420?]
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Page:
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1r
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Image Sequence Number:
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001r
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Description:
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Prick of Conscience. 19th century pagination appears in the corner of each folio, probably by T.C. Neale. All folio references use modern pencil foliation at bottom of recto pages. Decoration: 2 to 3-line initials in red for beginnings of sections. Written space is 185 x 60-110 mm. 1 column; 27-35 lines per column. Damp staining on several leaves. Written in large anglicana, but with single-compartment 'a', by a distinctive, unusual hand, perhaps 'amateur'.
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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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Item Height:
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205 mm
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Item Width:
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125 mm
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Current Repository:
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Leeds University Library, The University of Leeds, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Neale, T.C., Governor of Essex County Jail, Chelmsford, former owner
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Provenance:
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Harrison, Frederick A. (by 1898, grandson of T.C. Neale)
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Provenance:
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Sotheby's sale 30th January 1920, lot 116.
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Provenance:
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Maggs Brothers (Purchased from Maggs Brothers for the Brotherton Collection in 1950)
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Provenance:
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Sotheby's sale 15th October 1945, lot 2086
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Provenance:
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Harmswoth, Leicester, Sir
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Rights Holder - Image:
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University of Leeds
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Rights holder - Work:
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University of Leeds
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References:
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Lewis, R. E., and A. McIntosh, 'A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience' (Oxford: Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature, 1982), pp. 55-56.
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References:
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Humphreys, K. W., and J. Lightbown, 'Two Manuscripts of the Pricke of Conscience in the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds', Leeds Studies in English, 7-8 (1952), pp. 29-30.
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Bibliographic Citation:
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Ker, N. R., 'Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries', vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 67.
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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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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2010-02-08
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Multi Page Number:
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135
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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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2010-02
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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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