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Record Id:

032-002026625

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Add MS 32578

Title:

Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience

Scope & Content:

From the Catalogue of Additions (1889), pp. 157-58:

'1. RICHARD Rolle of Hampole's Prick of Conscience; in English verse. Imperfect ; wanting the first 182 lines of the Prologue. Colophon: "Explicit tractatus qui dicitur stimulus consciencie, Anno Domini millesimo cccc^moquinto, secundum manum Roberti Farnelay capellani." The name "Roberti" has been altered to "Johannes," and the words "manentis in Bolton" have been added. f. 1.

2. Credo in Anglicis an English poem on the Apostles' Creed. f. 104. Begin "Or Crist into cloudes gan flye up so swyftly Pe pater noster pyght was in boke to he broght." End: "Withoutyn any mysse, Mary, pou pray Pat we may come to blisse. Amen, quod Farnelay." 3. "Templum Domini": an English poem in 780 lines. f. 105 b. Begin: "Gode Pat alle thynge first began Has giffen his grace in diverse gyse." End: "Als he of not alle thynge began Gif us pe blisse pat lastes ay." 4. "Nichodemus de passione Christi": the Gospel of Nicodemus in English verse (a different version from that in Cotton MS., Galba E. ix., and Harley MS., 4196). f. 116 b. Begin: "It betide pat tyme pat Tyberyus Ruled alle Rome w^tryalte." End: "Pus felle it in certayne Of Jesu more and lesse." 5. Fragment of an English religious poem. f. 140 b. Begin: "In a semely someres tyde, Als I gan walke in a wilde woude, Undre a bowe I saw abyde A company of clerkes gude." Articles 2-5 are written in a different hand from that of art. 1, and are of rather later date. Paper; ff. 140. XVth cent. On the margins of some of the leaves (ff. 17b-27b, 47b-50) are written, in a hand of the 17th century, some religious pieces and notes in verse and prose. Belonged to Thomas Stead (f. 103 b) and William Richardson (f. 33 b) in the 17th century, and to Francis Britland in 1695 (f. 17). Names of other persons also occur, ff. 102b, 108b, 115b. Octavo.'

Includes:

f. 1 Richard Rolle, of Hampole, hermit and author: Prick of Conscience: 1405.: Imperf.
f. 1 Prick of Conscience: R. Rolle's Prick of Conscience, transcribed by R. Farnelay: 1405.
f. 1 Robertus Farnelay, Capellanus: Transcribed R. Rolle's Prick of Conscience: 1405.
ff. 17 b-27 b, 47 b-50 Poetry: Religious pieces, etc.: 17th cent.
f. 104 Poetry: English poem on the Apostles' Creed: 15th cent.
f. 104 Creeds: English poem on the Apostles' creed: 15th cent.
f. 105 b Poetry: Templum Domini: an English poem: 15th cent.
f. 116 b Nicodemus, Monachus: Gospel of, in English verse: 15th cent.
f. 116 b Poetry: Gospel of Nicodemus : in English verse: 15th cent.
f. 116 b Apocryphal Gospels: Gospel of Nicodemus, in English verse: 15th cent.
f. 140 b Poetry: Religious poem, in English: 15th cent.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

15th century-17th century

Era:

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Custodial History:

Thomas Stead: Owned: in the 17th cent.

William Richardson: Owned: in the 17th cent.

Francis Britland: Owned: in 1695.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCLXXXII-MDCCCLXXXVII (London: by order of the Trustees, 1889), pp. 157-58.

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1979), I, no. 356.

Robert E. Lewis and Angus McIntosh, A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the 'Prick of Conscience' (Oxford: Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature, 1982), pp. 68-69 [with additional bibliography].

Richard Morris's 'Prick of Conscience': A Corrected and Amplified Reading Text, prepared by Ralph Hanna and Sarah Wood, Early English Text Society, Original Series, 342 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 379 [on the text].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Britland, Francis
Farnelay, Robertus, chaplain, fl 1405
Nicodemus, Monachus
Richardson, William, of Add MS 32578
Rolle, Richard, c 1310-1349,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121177882,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2465074
Stead, Thomas