Detail View: Medieval Collection: Pains of hell
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Image Number:
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JRL0911877dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 90
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Pains of hell
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Parent Work Title:
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Pricke of Conscience with Wycliffe commentary on the Lord's Prayer
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Prick of Conscience
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Prycke of Conscience
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Creator Attribution:
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Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
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Display Creator:
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Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
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Date Created:
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14th century [late]
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Page:
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50v
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Image Sequence Number:
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050v
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Description:
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Pricke of Conscience: part six. English verse detailing the pains of hell: the greatest pain is the terrible longing for the sight of God. Hell is loud and crowded but big enough to hold all the wicked souls. Latin text is in red ink. The written space is 277 x 200 mm, with two columns in more or less current anglicana.
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Language Code:
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lat-GB
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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Poetry, Medieval
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Subject:
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Devotional literature, English (Middle)
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Subject:
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Christian literature, English (Middle)
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Vellum
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Time Period Covered:
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1200 - 1500 CE
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Places Covered:
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England
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People Covered:
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Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
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Item Height:
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345 mm
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Item Width:
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248 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Mainwaring, Philip, Sir
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Provenance:
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Corser, Thomas
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Provenance:
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Ashburnham Family
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Provenance:
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Crossley, James
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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Parts of this catalogue have been reproduced from Ker, N.R., 'Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 413-14. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
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References:
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.20.
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Bibliographic Citation:
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Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 'The pricke of conscience (Stimulus conscientiae): a Northumbrian poem by Richard Rolle de Hampole; copied and edited from mss. in the library of the British Museum, with an introd., notes, and glossarial index by Richard Morris.' (Berlin: A. Asher, 1863)
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Notes:
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The manuscript is sometimes referred to as the 'Corser Manuscript' after one of its previous owners.
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Cost:
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Bought for £54.00 from J. & J. Leighton in 1908
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-03-24
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Multi Page Number:
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550
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2009-06
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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