COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
Brotherton_500_320
Reference Number:
Brotherton Collection MS 500
Image Title:
Prick of Conscience
Parent Work Title:
Prick of Conscience
Creator Attribution:
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
Date Created:
14th-15th century [1380-1420?]
Page:
147v
Image Sequence Number:
147v
Description:
Prick of Conscience with some related additions in Latin. 19th century pagination appears in the corner of each folio, probably by T.C. Neale. All folio references use modern pencil foliation at bottom of recto pages. Decoration: 2 to 3-line initials in red for beginnings of sections. Written space is 185 x 60-110 mm. 1 column; 27-35 lines per column. Damp staining on several leaves. Written in large anglicana, but with single-compartment 'a', by a distinctive, unusual hand, perhaps 'amateur'.
Language Code:
lat-GB
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Subject:
Christian literature, English (Middle)
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
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)
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):
2010-02-11
Multi Page Number:
1600
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-02
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Prick of Conscience
