COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
Brotherton_500_326
Reference Number:
Brotherton Collection MS 500
Image Title:
Inside lower 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:
Inside lower cover
Image Sequence Number:
150v
Description:
Inside upper cover: paper pastedown on brown goatskin with a University of Leeds Brotherton Collection note tipped in.
Language Code:
eng-GB
Subject:
Bookbinding
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Technique Used:
Printing (process)
Medium:
Ink
Medium:
Pencil
Support:
Paper
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)
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.
Multi Page Number:
1630
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-02
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Inside lower cover binding
