Charlottesville, University of Virginia, Hench 10
United States |
Charlottesville |
University of Virginia |
Hench 10 |
Aldenham |
s. xiv2 |
English |
Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 448 277, LP 534 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). |
A late-fourteenth century copy of the
Prick of Conscience copied by a single scribe c. 1370 (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 48).
Item: 1ff. 3r-136v |
Prick of Conscience (Main Version, IMEV 3428) |
'ŝe myght of the fader almyghty'. F. 1r.'To mekenesse and to love and drede'. F. 3r. |
'ŝat on ŝe rode for oure love gan hynge. Amen'. |
'Explicit stimulus consciencie'. |
The first two folios are later additions with the original text now beginning on f. 3r. The rubric has been added by a late fifteenth-century, or possibly later, hand attempting to copy a fourteenth/fifteenth-century Anglicana hand. |
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Codex |
Parchment |
270 x 180 mm |
Catchwords: ff. 8v; 16v; 24v; 32v; 40v; 48v; 56v; 64v; 72v; 80v; 88v; 96v; 104v; 112v; 120v; 128v.
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Pricking: none seen. Writing space: unascertained. Single columns with 33-41 lines. Frame ruled. |
Anglicana Formata. Characteristics: ŝ, double compartment a; B-shaped w; long s in initial position; e with pointed head; 8-shaped s in final position; 8-shaped g. Body height: unable to measure - manuscript consulted on microfilm.
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Perhaps initial of each line tinted. Boxed glosses and running titles. Four-line capital with penwork infill f. 5v. Four-line capital A with extended and decorated descenders - unusual penwork f. 12v.
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Unascertained.
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ff. 136 |
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'Original ff. 1-2 missing since at least 1610, replaced by two parchment leaves copied from a manuscript in the British Library by H(enry) H(ucks) G(ibbs), first Lord Aldenham, in the 19th c. as he himself says on beginning flyleaf ii.' (Lewis and McIntosh, p. 48). |
Unknown |
Mark of ownership on f. 3r: ' 24 April Anno domini 1610'.
Walter Loveden's name appears again on f. 3r with the date 15 June 1610.
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Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, June 2004. Manuscript consulted in microfilm.
- 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.
- Faye, C. U., and Bond, W. H. 1962. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, p. 515a.
- Gibbs, H. H. 1888. A Catalogue of Some Printed Books and Manuscripts in St. Dunstans Regents Park, Aldenham House, Herts., London: privately printed, p. 159.
- 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. 48-49.
- 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.
- Sothebys Sale Catalogue, Aldenham lot 310, 22-24 March 1937, p. 132.
- Waters, S. 1976. The Pricke of Conscience: The Southern Recension, Book V, University of Edinburgh, Ph.D thesis, pp. 48-49.