The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 125

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9865

Shelfmark:

mssHM 125

Title:

Pricke of conscience

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1290 and 1410

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English, the fragment of Canon law is in Latin

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + 100 : parchment.

Note:

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.
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...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Christian life

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862096

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49322/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens