Detail View: Medieval Collection: Upper cover binding

Image Number: 
Brotherton_500_001
Reference Number: 
Brotherton Collection MS 500
Image Title: 
Upper cover binding
Parent Work Title: 
Prick of Conscience
Creator: 
Cockerell, Douglas & Son
Creator Role: 
Binder
Creator Attribution: 
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
Date Created: 
14th-15th century [1380-1420?]
Page: 
Upper cover
Image Sequence Number: 
001a
Description: 
Upper cover: full bound in brown goatskin by Douglas Cockerell and Son in 1954. Previous binding of 1896 was in imitation vellum.
Subject: 
Bookbinding
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Support: 
Goatskin
Time Period Covered: 
20th Century CE
Item Height: 
205 mm
Item Width: 
125 mm
Current Repository: 
Leeds University Library, The University of Leeds, U.K.
Provenance: 
Neale, T.C., Governor of Essex County Jail, Chelmsford, former owner
Provenance: 
Harrison, Frederick A. (by 1898, grandson of T.C. Neale)
Provenance: 
Sotheby's sale 30th January 1920, lot 116.
Provenance: 
Maggs Brothers (Purchased from Maggs Brothers for the Brotherton Collection in 1950)
Provenance: 
Sotheby's sale 15th October 1945, lot 2086
Provenance: 
Harmswoth, Leicester, Sir
Rights Holder - Image: 
University of Leeds
Rights holder - Work: 
University of Leeds
References: 
Humphreys, K. W., and J. Lightbown, 'Two Manuscripts of the Pricke of Conscience in the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds', Leeds Studies in English, 7-8 (1952), pp. 29-30.
References: 
Lewis, R. E., and A. McIntosh, 'A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience' (Oxford: Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature, 1982), pp. 55-56.
Bibliographic Citation: 
Ker, N. R., 'Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries', vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 67.
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.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2010-02-08
Multi Page Number: 
5
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2010-02
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB