Rolle, Richard, 1290?-1349, attributed name Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253, attributed name Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 125
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ff. 1-100; f. 100v blank. [Pricke of Conscience]. Incipit: Here bygynnepþ þe firste part of þis bok, Ferste whan god all þynge made of noȝte/ Man of þe fouleste mater was ywroȝte. Explicit: To whiche ioye he vs brynge __torn___/ þat for oure loue made alle þ__torn___. Here endeþ þe pricke of concie__torn___. Finem composui penite__torn___. English. IMEV 3429; Southern Recension; R. Morris, ed., The Pricke of Conscience. The Philological Society (Berlin 1863), from London, Brit. Lib., Cotton Galba E.ix. See also Stacy Waters,"The Pricke of Conscience: The Southern Recension, Book V," unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1976 (this manuscript the base text). R. E. Lewis and A. McIntosh, A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the 'Prick of Conscience.' Medium Aevum Monographs n.s. 12 (Oxford 1982) 145-46. The text is preceded by a prologue," þe myȝt of þe fader of heuene/ þe witte of þe sone with hys ȝiftes seuene . . .". ff. i-ii verso. [Canon law]. Incipit: //subintelligitur si comode potest alii dicunt quod potest dispensari in voto peregrinationis et non in voto continencie. Explicit: quia filius approbavit, pecuniariam vero satisfactionem bene potest iniungere. Et numquam//. Latin. Questions on canon law or moral theology concerning vows. Script: Littera textualis. Layout: 2 columns of 36 lines, ruled in dry point; prickings in outer and upper margins remain. Span folios: ff. i-ii verso. Inner bifolium of a quire. Assigned Date: s. XIII/XIV. Title from Digital Scriptorium. Support: Parchment. Script: Anglicana formata; Bastard anglicana. Layout: 1⁸ 2⁸(-8, excised) 3-4⁸ 5¹⁰ 6-12⁸ 13⁶(? -1 and 2 with loss of text; 5 is damaged; -6). Catchwords, most with a blue paragraph mark and one enclosed in a red ink frame. 37 lines of verse, ruled in lead; beginning with the fifth quire, most leaves with double bounding lines around the single-lined text frame. Span folios: ff. 1-100v. Other Decoration: Initials, 8- to 3-line, in blue, without ornamentation; guide letters in the margin. Assigned Date: s. XIV/XV. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/9/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound, s. XVII, in English dark brown calf, blind tooled; rebacked. HM 125. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Christian life--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Provenance
Written in England near the Gloucestershire/Worcestershire border at the turn of the fourteenth century. Miscellaneous sixteenth century pen trials, including the following names: f. 73v,"Thomas Jhone"; f. 95v,"In my begynynge god be my good spede In grace & vertue allways to prosed. Chrystefer Byrkheade" ( IMEV 430.5 ); f. 98v,"Rycharde mynstrelley." On f. 100v, an inscription, s. XIX (?), mostly torn away with only the last word remaining:"Male." Placed by G. D. Smith in a sale by Anderson, New York, 12 December 1917, lot 376 to G. D. Smith.
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