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COLLECTION NAME:
Manuscripts
Record
Identifier:
MS492
Title:
PRICK OF CONSCIENCE
Description:
The Prick of Conscience, an anonymous, but extremely popular, didactic poem in English verse dealing with the four last things: Death, Judgment, Hell and Heaven. Originally composed in the mid-fourteenth century, and edited by Richard Morris as 'The Pricke of Conscience (Stimulus Conscientiae), a Northumbrian Poem by Richard Rolle de Hampole' (Berlin, 1863). The attribution to Richard Rolle is no longer maintained.
f. 1. Rubric: Hic inc. liber qui vocatur stimulus consciencie et ex dictis doctorum colligitur atque tractatur. Et diuiditur in septem partes videlicet .... septima pars de gaudiis celi.
Ye myhte of ye fadir alle myhty ...
Ends imperfect (last rubric: Bonum castrum custodit qui corpus suum custodit) (l. 5826)
Off sonnes and douthers y(t) yei fforth br . . ith (broght)
(catchword) Ye whiche yei here (l. 5869).
Description:
Calf binding, typical of bindings for William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury 1678-90. Price of binding (seen by MR James but no longer visible after rebacking): 'pr. 1s. 6d'.
Parchment leaves, 250 x 140 mm, 44 lines to a page in a clear hand.
Collation: 2 flyleaves 1(8)-7(8).
The flyleaves are made of a mutilated document (s. xv), reciting an agreement between the Prior of ...... and Will. Newport, chaplain, witnessed by Joh. Bettesworth, notary public dioc. Lincoln. It has the notarial mark of Joh. Sloley of Norwich diocese.
Date:
Late 14th century?
Format:
Parchment
Language:
English, Latin
Rights:
LPL