COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
Brotherton_501_007
Reference Number:
Brotherton Collection MS 501
Image Title:
Prick of Conscience
Parent Work Title:
Miscellany of Middle English religious verse and prose
Creator Attribution:
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
Date Created:
15th century [mid]
Page:
1r
Image Sequence Number:
001r
Description:
Prick of Conscience, beginning at line 1130. Written in anglicana (main text) and anglicana formata (headings and Latin quotations), by a single scribe (possibly to be identified as M.R., 'secundum M.R.' f. 67v) writing at different times. Decoration: 2 to 3-line initials in red with pen ornamentation in brown. Capitals touched in red. Catchwords in cartouches. Occasional pointing hand. Written space is 195 x 140 mm. 1 column; 36 to 46 lines per column.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Language Code:
lat-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:
Paper
Creation Site:
England--Lincolnshire
Item Height:
222 mm
Item Width:
200 mm
Current Repository:
Leeds University Library, The University of Leeds, U.K.
Provenance:
Pell, Thomas
Provenance:
Edwards, Francis, (catalogue no. 700, item 411.catalogue no. 700, item 411).
Provenance:
Powell, F. S., Sir
Provenance:
Purchased for the Brotherton Collection from Francis Edwards in 1950.
Provenance:
Sotheby's sale 14 March 1949, lot 309.
Provenance:
Maggs Bros. (catalogue no. 542, item 133; catalogue no. 555, item 204; catalogue no. 580, item 450; catalogue no. 687, item 171).
Provenance:
Sheldrake family
Rights Holder - Image:
University of Leeds
Rights holder - Work:
University of Leeds
References:
Hanna, R., III, 'Leeds University Library, MS Brotherton 501: A Redescription', in: Manuscripta, 26 (1982), pp. 38-42.
References:
Pickering, O. S., 'A Middle English prose miracle of the Virgin, with hidden verses', Medium Ævum, 57 (1988), pp. 219-239.
References:
Pickering, O. S., 'Brotherton Collection MS 501: A Middle English Anthology Reconsidered', Leeds Studies in English, 21 (1990), pp. 141-165.
References:
Humphreys, K. W., and J. Lightbown, 'Two Manuscripts of the Pricke of Conscience in the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds', in: Leeds Studies in English, 7-8 (1952), pp. 30-34.
Bibliographic Citation:
Ker, N. R., 'Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries', vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 67-70
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):
2010-02-12
Multi Page Number:
35
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
Prick of Conscience
