Detail View: Medieval Collection: Prick of Conscience

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