London, British Library, Harley 2281
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| London |
| British Library |
| Harley 2281 |
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| s. xvin |
| English |
| Scribal dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 336 227, LP 7280 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199).
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An early fifteenth century copy of the
Prick of Conscience.
Item: 1| ff. 1r-64v |
| Prick of Conscience (Southern Recension, IMEV 3429) |
| 'The might to že fader of hevene'. |
| 'seven werkes of mercy žat hi did no?t here by hire lyf'. |
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 225 x 145-50 mm |
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Collation unascertainable. Some catchwords, some signatures.
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| Pricking not visible. Writing space of 180 x 93-100mm. Single columns with 32-38 lines. Ruled lines and frame with margin ruled in drypoint but now discoloured to 'plum'/grey ink (other scratches on the folios have the same discolouration). |
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One scribe writing in an Anglicana Formata script. Characteristics: small, neat hand with an open aspect; hooked ascender for k, l, and b; B-shaped w; double compartment a with pointed head; 2-shaped r; double compartment g; ?; Body height: 2mm.
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In red: paraphs; brackets; red box around 'headings'.
Three-line blue initial T on initial page; two-line blue initials; six-line initial I.
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Not medieval. 235 x 160 mm. Covered in grey/green leather mitred and pasted onto pasteboard. Five raised bands across the spine. Each folio is now separately mounted.
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| v + 64 + viii. 5 'modern' paper flyleaves at front, 8 at back.
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| Alphabet in right margin, f. 35r. Rubric rubbed out, f. 43v.
Inscriptions in a fifteenth-century hand on ff. 47r, 50v. F. 51r 'ffallm...'. F. 54r four lines in right margin. F. 57r - notes in left margin.
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| Good |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003. Manuscript consulted.
Related Manuscripts and other documents
Textual
Related to Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lyell empt. 6 and San Marino, California, Huntington Library, HM 130 (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 139).
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1808-1812, 4 vols., London: G. Eyre and A. Strahan, 2. Commenced by H. Wanley, and successively continued by D. Casley, W. Hocker, C. Morton, index by T. Astle, p. 640.
- D’Evelyn, C. 1930. ‘An East Midland recension of the Pricke of Conscience’, Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, 45, 180-200
- 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, p. 139.
- 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, pp. i-ii and ii, n. 2.
- Warton, Thomas. 1871, rpt. 1970. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century, London: Reeves and Turner, rpt. New York: Haskell House Publishers, p. 240, n. 1.
