COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0922936dc
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:
7r
Image Sequence Number:
007r
Description:
Pricke of Conscience: prologue. English verse with Latin prose in red ink. The written space is 144 mm high in untidy anglicana formata, with lapses into current anglicana.
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:
115
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
