Wellesley College, MS 8
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16435
- Shelfmark:
- MS 8
- Title:
- The pricke of conscience and others
- Place:
- England (Yorkshire)
- Date:
- between 1400 and 1450
- Language:
- Middle English
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 252 pages ; 213 x 147 (156 x 96) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Bowes, William Blakiston, 1691-1721
- Note:
- Collation: 212, 314, 414 (-1 though -3), 5-614, 714 (-9), 814, 916, [quire 10 lacking], 1112(-1, -2, -12), 1210 (-9); lacking 3 folios after p. 52 (PC lines 1366-1565), 1 folio after p. 138 (PC lines 4550-4621), lacking a quire of 10 folios after p. 216 plus the first two folios of the next quire (PC lines 7421-8572), 1 folio after p. 234 (PC lines 9154-9219), 1 folio cancelled after p. 250...
Quarto paper with watermarks: a horse, a bouquet of flowers (unicorn?), and two unidentified images.
Layout: 1 column, 29-30 lines. Bounding lines single, ruled in blind.
Decoration: 2-line red initials at book or section incipits, verse initials stroked red.
Origin: Written in the English Midlands in the beginning of the fifteenth century, with numerous fifteenth-century readers' inscriptions (fol. 248: "Wylliam Hollerbrun han thys boke"; fol. 249: "Rhyght grysty and wylbeloved frynd Roberte"; p. 252: inscription mentioning Cecilia Cooke, wife of Robert Cooke from Skeibey [Skeeby, in Yorkshire]; p. 247: effaced inscription legible under...
Script: Written in a cursive English bookhand in black ink. Rubrics red or red with black dots, with rhyming words for each stanza bracketed.
Owned in the eighteenth century by William Blakiston Bowes of Streatlam Castle, near Durham (bookplate inside front cover). Typescript dealer's description inside front cover (Sotheby's?) - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626050
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/34258/manifest
- Holding Institution:
