COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Image Number:
Brotherton_500_031
Reference Number:
Brotherton Collection MS 500
Image Title:
Prick of Conscience
Parent Work Title:
Prick of Conscience
Creator Attribution:
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
Date Created:
14th-15th century [1380-1420?]
Page:
3r
Image Sequence Number:
003r
Description:
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'.
Language Code:
enm-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
Item Height:
205 mm
Item Width:
125 mm
Current Repository:
Leeds University Library, The University of Leeds, U.K.
Provenance:
Neale, T.C., Governor of Essex County Jail, Chelmsford, former owner
Provenance:
Harrison, Frederick A. (by 1898, grandson of T.C. Neale)
Provenance:
Sotheby's sale 30th January 1920, lot 116.
Provenance:
Maggs Brothers (Purchased from Maggs Brothers for the Brotherton Collection in 1950)
Provenance:
Sotheby's sale 15th October 1945, lot 2086
Provenance:
Harmswoth, Leicester, Sir
Rights Holder - Image:
University of Leeds
Rights holder - Work:
University of Leeds
References:
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.
References:
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.
Bibliographic Citation:
Ker, N. R., 'Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries', vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 67.
Notes:
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.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2010-02-08
Multi Page Number:
155
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-02
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Medieval
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