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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Prick of Conscience

Image Number: 
Brotherton_500_053
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: 
14r
Image Sequence Number: 
014r
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: 
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Subject: 
Christian literature, English (Middle)
Subject: 
Poetry, Medieval
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)
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: 
265
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