Prick of Conscience
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Prick of Conscience
Classmark: BC MS 500
Publication city: [England]
Date(s): [ca. 1380-1420]
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)
Size and medium: 1 v. (xii, 147, ii leaves) (1 column, 27-35 lines)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/118291
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
19th-century pagination, probably by T. C. Neale.
Damp staining on several leaves.
Initials: 2 to 3-line initials in red for beginnings of sections.
Modern front flyleaves contain extensive 19th-century notes relating to the manuscript by T. C. Neale and F. A. Harrison.
Written in a large anglicana, but with single-compartment 'a'. It's a distinctive, unusual hand, perhaps 'amateur'.
Principal contents: ff. 1r-147v The Prick of Conscience. Some related additions in Latin on ff. 44r-v, 147v.
Purchased by the Brotherton Collection, from Maggs Bros., in 1950.
See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) p. 67; K. W. Humphreys and J. Lightbown, 'Two Manuscripts of the Pricke of Conscience in the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds', in: Leeds Studies in English, nos. vii-viii (1952), pp. 29-30; and R. E. Lewis and A. McIntosh, A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience (Oxford, 1982), pp. 55-56.
Features
Bindings
Bound in brown goatskin by Douglas Cockerell and Son, in 1954 (note at back). Previous binding of 1896 was in imitation vellum.
Provenance
In the 19th century belonged to T. C. Neale, governor of the Essex County Jail at Chelmsford. By 1898 passed to his grandson, Frederick A. Harrison; his sale at Sotheby's, 1920. In the collection of Sir Leicester Harmsworth until 1945, when again sold at Sotheby's.
Access and usage
Access
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