New Haven, Conn., Yale University Library, Osborn a 13
| USA |
| New Haven, Conn. |
| Yale University Library |
| Osborn a 13 |
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| s. xv1 |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 239). |
A manuscript of the
Prick of Conscience written by one scribe in the first half of the fifteenth century.
Item: 1.1| ff. 2r-6v |
| Prologue to the Prick of Conscience |
| 'And no quyk creature bot ŝay'. |
| 'So speken of monnes wrechednes'. |
| 'The entre'. |
| The text of f. 2r carries only an initial A to begin the text whilst the text on f. 7r is hierarchized by a four-line lombardic initial boxed in with white-line penwork and sprays of feathering with pairs of balls. F. 55r-v is blank. |
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Item: 1.2| ff. 7r-139r |
| Prick of Conscience (Main Version, IMEV 3428) |
| 'Ŝe fyrst part of ŝis book ŝat es of mon and of his wrechednes'. |
| 'ŝat for oure hele on rode con hyng. Amen'. |
| 'The fyrst part'. |
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 240 x 155 mm |
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Catchwords: ff. 16v; 24v; 32v; 40v; 48v; 56v; 64v; 72v; 80v; 88v; 96v; 104v; 112v; 120v; 128v; 136v.
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| Pricking: none visible. Writing space: unascertained. Single columns with 32-33 ruled lines. Frame ruled. |
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One scribe writing in an Anglicana Formata hand. Characteristics: ŝ; 8-shaped s in final position; 2-shaped r in final position; double compartment a in initial position; 8-shaped g; long s in initial position; hooked ascender on b and h; B-shaped w. Body height: unascertained.
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Four-line initials with white-line patterning and sprays of feathering with pairs of balls eg ff. 7r, 59r. Two-line blue? initials with extended red penwork flourishing eg. f. 130r. Paraphs. Latin lines in red?
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Not medieval. 'PRICK OF CON-SCIENCE' tooled in gold on spine.
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| vii + 138 + iii (138 ff. of the text foliated 2-139); f. 55 blank and modern. |
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| Good. Some staining. |
| Unknown |
| Early history unknown. Plain bookplate on inside front cover 'EX LIBRIS WALTER WILSON GREG TRIN: COLL: CAMB:' and on first flyleaf recto 'Walter W. Greg Trin: Colle: Camb./ May 1911'. Flyleaves appear to be filled with a commentary by Greg. |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, June 2004 from microfilm. Microfilm supplied from 'The James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University'.
Related Manuscripts and other documents
Textual
A member of the Lichfield subgroup (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 91).
- Allen, H. E. 1927. Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole and Materials for his Biography, Modern Language Association of America Monograph series, 3, New York and London: Modern Language Association of America, p. 382.
- Dareau, M. G. and McIntosh, A. 1971. ‘A Dialect Word in Some West Midland Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience’, in Pálsson, 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. 90-91.
- 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.
