Oxford, Trinity College, 16A
| England |
| Oxford |
| Trinity College |
| 16A |
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| s. xvi1 |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 359 275, LP 4239 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 234). |
A copy of the
Prick of Conscience from the first half of the sixteenth century.
Item: 1| ff. 1r-116v |
| Prick of Conscience (Main Version, IMEV 3428) |
| 'Profitabule book ys žys to [erasure] lerune'. |
| 'žat for oure hele on rode con hyng. Amen'. |
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 225 x 140 mm |
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Catchwords: ff. 56v; 85v; 115v.
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| Pricking not visible. Writing space of 165 x 80 mm with single columns and ruled for 34 lines (ff. 13-24v) and then 39-45 lines. Frame and lines ruled in drypoint. |
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One scribe writing in brown and black ink in a small Anglicana Formata script with Latin quotations mainly in Textura. Characteristics: double compartment a in initial position, 2-shaped r in medial position; v-shaped r in medial position; s shaped like a backward e in initial position; ?; ž; ascenders and descenders not much higher/lower than main body of graph; flat topped t.
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First letter of each line tinted red. Red paraphs. Three-line red or blue lombards for divisions in text. Some words/lines in red. F. 116v - 'AMEN' on a separate line in blue lombards with red infill and surrounded by a pattern of red wiggly lines and dots.
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Not medieval. Size: 230 x 150 mm. Cover of red leather with five raised bands of double cords across the spine.
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| ff. i + 116 + 1. i 'modern' parchment + 116 + i 'modern' parchment foliated as 117. |
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| Very good. |
| Unknown |
| F. 116v - 'Liber Joh[ann]is Leche' - in a late fifteenth/early sixteenth-century hand. |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, June 2004.
Related Manuscripts and other documents
Textual
Lewis and McIntosh state that this manuscript is a member of the Lichfield subgroup (1982, p. 121).
- Coxe, H. O. 1852. Catalogus Codicum MSS. qui in Collegiis Aulisque Oxoniensibus Hodie Adservantur, Oxford. Oxonii: E Typographeo Academico, facsimile reprint Wakefield: E P Publishing 1972, vol. 2, Part 5, 7.
- Dareau, M. G. and McIntosh, A. 1971. ‘A Dialect Word in Some West Midland Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience’, in Pįlsson, H., Aitken, A. J. and MacIntosh, A. ed, Edinburgh Studies in English and Scots, London: Longman, pp. 20-22.
- Lewis, R. E. 1981. ‘The Relationship of the Vernon and Simeon Texts of the Pricke of Conscience’, in Benskin, M. and Samuels, M. L., ed, So Meny People Longages and Tonges: Philological Essays on Scots and Mediaeval English Presented to Angus McIntosh, Edinburgh: Middle English Dialect Project, pp. 251-264, pp. 257-259 and n. 22.
- Lewis, R. E., and McIntosh, A. 1982. A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience, Medium Aevum Monographs 12, Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures, pp. 120-121.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4.
