COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0911882dc
Reference Number:
English MS 90
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Joys of heaven
Parent Work Title:
Pricke of Conscience with Wycliffe commentary on the Lord's Prayer
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Prick of Conscience
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Prycke of Conscience
Creator Attribution:
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
Display Creator:
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
Date Created:
14th century [late]
Page:
53r
Image Sequence Number:
053r
Description:
Pricke of Conscience: part seven. English verse on the great joy and perfect happiness of heaven, the geatest joy is the sight of God. Latin text is in red ink. The written space is 277 x 200 mm, with two columns in more or less current anglicana.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Language Code:
lat-GB
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
Subject:
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Subject:
Christian literature, English (Middle)
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered:
England
People Covered:
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
Item Height:
345 mm
Item Width:
248 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Mainwaring, Philip, Sir
Provenance:
Corser, Thomas
Provenance:
Crossley, James
Provenance:
Ashburnham Family
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
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.
References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.20.
Bibliographic Citation:
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)
Notes:
The manuscript is sometimes referred to as the 'Corser Manuscript' after one of its previous owners.
Cost:
Bought for £54.00 from J. & J. Leighton in 1908
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-03-23
Multi Page Number:
575
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-06
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Joys of heaven
