Cambridge, University Library, Ee.iv.35.2
| England |
| Cambridge |
| University Library |
| Ee.iv.35.2 |
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| s. xiv2 |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 383 193, LP 7000 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 196). |
A composite manuscript. Part 1, a sixteenth-century manuscript, contains various texts such as
The Child and his Stepmother, Robin Hood and the Potter, The King and the Barker with Part 2 containing the southern recension of the
Prick of Conscience from the second half of the fourteenth century (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 133). Only Part 2 is considered here.
Item: 2| ff. 1v-96v |
| Prick of Conscience (Southern Recension, IMEV 3429) |
| 'Že mi?t of že holie fadur in heuene'. |
| 'Of eni clerk ožer lewede man že whiche mi defaute amende kan'. |
| 'Here bigynnež the book že whiche ys ycleped že [erased]'. |
| Southern recension of the text. |
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 265 x 160 mm |
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112; 212 (wants 12), 312 (wants 1, 9); 412 (wants 5-8), 5-812. Catchwords: ff. 12v; 36v; 48v; 60v; 72v, 84v; 96v.
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| Pricking visible to trace the writing frame. Writing space: 216 x 125 mm. Single columns with 34-47 lines (the number of lines increasing as the text progresses). Frame ruled in brown crayon - barely visible, lines not visible. |
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One scribe writing in black ink (now faded) in an Anglicana Formata hand. Characteristics: B-shaped w; double compartment a; long s in medial position; hooked ascender on l, h; 8-shaped g; 2-shaped r in final position; 8-shaped s in final position; v-shaped r in medial position; looped ascender on d. Body height: 3mm.
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Whole of f. 1r, table of contents in double columns, is in red apart from two-line initials in blue. Initial page of text - f. 1v: eight-line ž of 'že' and two-line B of 'Bifore' in red. Titles in red with first letter a blue Lombard. Some passages in red. Eight/ten-line red thorn throughout. First letter of each line tinted red (now a faded yellow/brown). This decoration was drawn in as a line down the column of first letters.
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Not medieval. Size: 280 x 180 mm. Spine covered with brown morocco. Marbled paper inside covers over board. No visible bands across the spine.
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| ff. 89 (ff. 24-25, 33, 41-44 lost). |
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| Good, apart from loss of leaves. |
| Unknown |
| On the inside cover there is a printed image, ex libris? frontispiece? It has written on it 'Mvnificentia Regia 1715. Georgivs D. G. Mag. Fr. et Hib. Rex F. D.' Possibly a reference to the collection which was given to the library by the king? |
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Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham and Orietta DaRold, University of Birmingham, June 2004.
- Hardwick, C. and Luard, R., ed, 1857. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, 6 vols, Cambridge: University Press, 2, pp. 167-169.
- 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. 133-134.
- 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
- Morris, R. ed, 1863. Richard Rolle of Hampole, The Pricke of Conscience (Stimulus Conscientiae), Berlin: Asher
- Waters, S. 1976. ‘The Pricke of Conscience: The Southern Recension, Book V’, University of Edinburgh, Ph.D thesis
