COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0922987dc
Reference Number:
English MS 51
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Deeds of the soul
Parent Work Title:
Pricke of Conscience with Richard of Maidstone commentary
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:
15th century
Page:
32v
Image Sequence Number:
032v
Description:
Pricke of Conscience: part three. Headings in English and Latin appear in red ink. English verse on how human life is full of sin and another reason man dreads death is that he is uncertain of what will happen after death. The written space is 144 mm high in untidy anglicana formata, with lapses into current anglicana.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Language Code:
lat-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:
Johnson, Maurice, Esq., Ayscough-Fee Hall, Co. Lincoln
Provenance:
Hardy, John
Provenance:
Day, Thomas, of Grys'
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
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.
References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.14.
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)
Cost:
Bought from London bookseller Bernard Quaritch in 1919 for £36.00
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-06-10
Multi Page Number:
370
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-08
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Deeds of the soul
