COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0922934dc
Reference Number:
English MS 51
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Prologue
Parent Work Title:
Pricke of Conscience with Richard of Maidstone commentary
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Prycke of Conscience
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Prick of Conscience
Creator Attribution:
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
Display Creator:
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
Date Created:
15th century
Page:
6r
Image Sequence Number:
006r
Description:
Pricke of Conscience: prologue. The text begins imperfectly at the top of the folio at 'and amende wiþ al'. English verse with Latin prose underlined in red ink. The written space is 144 mm high in untidy anglicana formata, with lapses into current anglicana.
Language Code:
lat-GB
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
Subject:
Christian literature, English (Middle)
Subject:
Devotional 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:
180 mm
Item Width:
115 mm
Current Repository:
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
Provenance:
Hardy, John
Provenance:
Day, Thomas, of Grys'
Provenance:
Johnson, Maurice, Esq., Ayscough-Fee Hall, Co. Lincoln
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.14.
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. 402-3. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
Cost:
Bought from London bookseller Bernard Quaritch in 1919 for £36.00
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-06-10
Multi Page Number:
105
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-08
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Prologue
