Detail View: Medieval Collection: Complaint of Our Lady

Image Number: 
Brotherton_501_224
Reference Number: 
Brotherton Collection MS 501
Image Title: 
Complaint of Our Lady
Alternative Image Title: 
Gospel of Nicodemus
Parent Work Title: 
Miscellany of Middle English religious verse and prose
Date Created: 
15th century [mid]
Page: 
109v
Image Sequence Number: 
109v
Description: 
The text on this folio is from the 'Complaint of Our Lady' and from the 'Gospel of Nicodemus'. The following folios are very disordered and the text appears in reverse order. 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
Subject: 
Christian literature, English (Middle)
Subject: 
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
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: 
Sotheby's sale 14 March 1949, lot 309.
Provenance: 
Pell, Thomas
Provenance: 
Purchased for the Brotherton Collection from Francis Edwards in 1950.
Provenance: 
Powell, F. S., Sir
Provenance: 
Sheldrake family
Provenance: 
Edwards, Francis, (catalogue no. 700, item 411.catalogue no. 700, item 411).
Provenance: 
Maggs Bros. (catalogue no. 542, item 133; catalogue no. 555, item 204; catalogue no. 580, item 450; catalogue no. 687, item 171).
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: 
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.
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.
Bibliographic Citation: 
Ker, N. R., 'Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries', vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 67-70
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2010-02-15
Multi Page Number: 
1120
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2010-03
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval