COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0924180dc
Reference Number:
English MS 50
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Purgatory
Parent Work Title:
Pricke of Conscience; Guy of Warwick Speculum
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:
71
Image Sequence Number:
071
Description:
Pricke of Conscience: part three. The text begins imperfectly here at the top of the page after a gap in the text. At least one page has been removed from the codex, the remains of which is just visible in the gutter (inner margin). English verse on how many souls go to purgatory after death, with only very few going straight to heaven. A section of Latin text begins with a blue initial 'I'. The written space is 190 x 87 mm, 33 long lines and the hand is anglicana formata.
Language Code:
lat-GB
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Christian literature, English (Middle)
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
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:
250 mm
Item Width:
149 mm
Current Repository:
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
Provenance:
Farmer, R., d. 1798, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Provenance:
Clerke, Andrew
Provenance:
Harford, C.H.
Provenance:
Le Neve, Peter, of Norfolk
Provenance:
Held, Thomas [?]
Provenance:
Martin, Thomas
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
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. 401-2. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
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 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.
Cost:
Bought from London bookseller Bernard Quaritch for £35.00 in 1919.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-06-25
Multi Page Number:
420
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-08
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Purgatory
