COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0924330dc
Reference Number:
English MS 50
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Guy of Warwick Speculum
Parent Work Title:
Pricke of Conscience; Guy of Warwick Speculum
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Prick of Conscience
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Prycke of Conscience
Date Created:
14th century [late]
Page:
222
Image Sequence Number:
222
Description:
Guy of Warwick Speculum: Alquin's sermon to Guy. Alquin tells Guy to be patient. Sections in Latin are introduced by initials in blue and red ink and also underlined in red. The written space is 190 x 87 mm, 33 long lines and the hand is anglicana formata.
Language Code:
lat-GB
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
Item Height:
250 mm
Item Width:
149 mm
Current Repository:
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
Provenance:
Farmer, R., d. 1798, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Provenance:
Clerke, Andrew
Provenance:
Harford, C.H.
Provenance:
Le Neve, Peter, of Norfolk
Provenance:
Held, Thomas [?]
Provenance:
Martin, Thomas
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
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. 401-2. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
Bibliographic Citation:
Morrill, Georgiana Lea, 'Speculum Gy de Warewyke: an English poem with introduction, notes, and glossary, here for the first time printed and first edited from the manuscripts by Georgiana Lea Morrill.' (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1898)
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.
Cost:
Bought from London bookseller Bernard Quaritch for £35.00 in 1919.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-06-25
Multi Page Number:
1170
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-08
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Guy of Warwick Speculum
