The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 130

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9871

Shelfmark:

mssHM 130

Title:

Pricke of Conscience

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1390 and 1410

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 120 : parchment ; 160 x 235 mm

Former Owner(s):

Wyer, Robert, active 1530-1556

Robert Wyer WIKIDATA

Herbert, William, 1718-1795

William Herbert WIKIDATA

Page-Turner, Gregory O., Sir, 1785-1848

Sir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Bt. WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Sometimes attributed to Richard Rolle or Robert Grosseteste.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana formata.
Layout: 18(-1) 2-48 510 6-148 158(8 blank, now as pastedown). Catchwords, each with a red paragraph mark and many enclosed in a red or brown ink frame; quire and leaf signatures of letters and roman numerals through the first 5 quires. 28-35 lines of verse, ruled in lead; pricking visible on inner and outer margins of many leaves.
Span folios: ff. 1-120v.
Other Decoration: 4- to 2-line initials in red, without ornamentation; rubrics and Latin quotations in red.
On f. 120v: an erasure, "explicit __?___," in the original hand; "Unto þat same ioye he//"; "Memorandum God and houre lady that best may sawe al marchaunts by nyght and be day and be ther sped amen quod Willme Smart" (see Hanna, "Addenda," n. 13); "Memorandum dum sumus in mondo [sic] vivamus corde Iocondum [sic]. Da bona cum tua sunt poste [sic] mortem Tunc tua non sunt, Smart." Early...
Assigned Date: s. XIV/XV.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/14/2012.
On f. 120v, "Iste liber partinet [sic] Willelmo Smart. Smart groser," with merchant's mark; William Smart became a freeman of the Company of Grocers of London in 1495 and warden of the Company in 1509. The manuscript was, at least temporarily during the 1530s, in hands of the printer, Robert Wyer. Acquired in 1772 by William Herbert (1718-95), as shown by his signature and date on f. 1 (the...

Keyword:

Compositor's copy

manuscripts (documents)

Christian life

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862102

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52085/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens