Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 33
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS18142
- Shelfmark:
- VAULT Case MS 33
- Title:
- Pricke of conscience
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1350 and 1399
- Language:
- Middle English and Latin
- Material:
- ill.
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 99 leaves : ill. ; 205 x 111 (185 x 80) mm.
- Former Owner(s):
- Neve, Timothy, 1694-1757
Peterborough Public Library (Peterborough, England)
- Note:
- Ms. codex
Title from printed catalog.
Commonly attributed to Richard Rolle or Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln.
Collation: Parchment, fol. 99 (paginated 1-198); 18 (stubs only) 28(-1,2) 3-138 148(-2-7) 158(-4-8) 162 (stubs only).
Layout: Written in 39 long lines; ruled in brown pen.
Script: Written in cursiva anglicana formata.
Decoration: Initial letter of each line touched in red; alternating red and blue couplet marks.
Origin: Written in England (dialect indicates southwest Lincolnshire) in the 2nd half of the 14th century.
Former owner: Timothy Neve.
Former owner's inscription: Mr. Neve secretary of the Gentlemen's society in Peterboro presents this ancient but imperfect manuscript to ye society. It consists of seven books in English missing the greate part of ye first book lost and part of ye last ..."
Circular bookplate bearing interlaced "PS" (Peterborough Society?), numbered 27.
Bookplate: Peterborough Public Library reference department no. 1590, class no. 821.1. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma998684678805867
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8Z9UTJX1
- Holding Institution:
