San Marino, CA., Huntington Library, HM 125
| United States |
| San Marino, CA. |
| Huntington Library |
| HM 125 |
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| s. xiv/xv |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 383 231, LP 7800 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). |
A late fourteenth/early fifteenth-century copy (Dutschke 1989, p. 156) of the
Prick of Conscience.
Item: 1| ff. 1r-100r |
| Prick of Conscience (Southern Recension, IMEV 3429) |
| 'že my?t of že fader of heuene'. |
| 'žat for oure love made alle ž[mutilated]'. |
| 'Here endež že pricke of concie [mutilated]' followed in a different but contemporary hand by 'ffinem composui penite [mutilated]'. |
| Only a small portion of f. 100 remains. |
Morris 1863; Waters 1976.
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 238 x 170 mm |
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18, 28 (with 8 excised), 3-48, 510, 6-128, 13?6 (wanting 1-2 and 6).
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| Writing space of 178 x 115 mm. Single columns ruled in lead for 37 lines. |
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One scribe writing in an Anglicana Formata script and using a Bastard Anglicana for Latin quotations. Characteristics: first letter of each line detached; ž; double compartment a in medial position; long s in initial position; double compartment g; cross-shaped &; hooked ascender on h and b; v shaped r in medial position; short ascenders and descenders. Body height: not ascertained.
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| Blue initials vary from three to eight lines. Catchwords with a blue paraph mark, one boxed in red. Running titles marked by a blue paraph. Rubrics and Latin quotations boxed in brown but ff. 58r-75v boxed in red, and blue between ff. 67v-96r.
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Not medieval. Seventeenth-century brown calf tooled in blind. Rebacked.
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| ii + 100 |
| ff. i-iiv: questions on canon law or moral theology. |
| Good |
| Unknown |
| F. 73v '' in a sixteenth-century hand. F. 95v (IMEV 430): 'In my begynynge god be my good spede in grace & vertue allways to prosed ' in a sixteenth-century hand. F. 98v '' in a sixteenth-century hand. |
| Lot 376 in a sale by Anderson, New York, 12 December 1917. Acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown. |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, June 2004. Manuscript not consulted. Microfilm, Lewis and McIntosh 1982, and Dutschke 1989 used for description. Owing to the Huntington Library's stipulations on the web publication of images, it has unfortunately not been possible to include images of this manuscript in the Catalogue.
- 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, 373n., pp. 539-40.
- De Ricci, S., and Wilson, W. J. 1935. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Unitied States and Canada, New York: Wilson, i, p. 53.
- Dutschke, C. W. 1989. Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library, San Marino, Ca.: Huntington Library, 1, pp. 156-7.
- 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. 145-146.
- 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.
