The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 139

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9878

Shelfmark:

mssHM 139

Title:

Pricke of conscience.

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 44 : paper ; 205 x 288 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Support: Paper.
Script: Anglicana.
Layout: Bound too tightly to collate; no catchwords or signatures. 2 columns of 45-58 lines, frame ruled in ink.
Watermark(s): Similar to Briquet, Chien 3612, Palermo 1457, and Zonghi 991, 1478, and to Briquet, Monts 11664, Venice 1476.
Span folios: ff. 1-44v.
Other Decoration: No decoration or rubrication.
Contemporary foliation, 144-186, shows that this manuscript was once part of a larger volume. On f. 21v, in a sixteenth-century hand, "Jhon pendand" (?). The greater part of one column is left blank on f. 12vb, at part 1, v. 2265; it picks up with no loss of text at the top of f. 13. The resulting empty space has been used for a number of jottings by various fifteenth and sixteenth-century...
Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/15/2012.
Among the early owners are certainly John Wyldon, and possibly John Pendand (?). Sold by Thorpe, 1836, lot 1023 to Sir Thomas Phillipps; his MS 9412. Acquired privately by Henry E. Huntington through A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1923.

Keyword:

watermarks

manuscripts (documents)

Christian life

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862109

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:49434/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens