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Lansdowne MS 348

Record Id:

040-002074749

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002074749

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Lansdowne MS 348

Title:

Prick of Conscience

Scope & Content:

The manuscript contains:

f. 1r: Notes extracted from Albertus Magnus. Beginning: 'vernena est herba'. Ending: 'et tota domus apperebit plena vestriis'.

f. 2r-127v: Prick of Conscience (Main Version IMEV 3428). Beginning: 'Þe myght' of þe fader all' mighti'. Ending: 'Þat for oure loue on Rode can hynge'. Colophon: 'Explicit expliciat. Ludere scriptor eat'.

Missing or misarranged parts of the text (see Lewis and McIntosh, Descriptive Guide (1982), pp. 68-69):

- one quire of 8 leaves missing between ff. 57 and 58, containing ll. 3842-4394.

- one quire of eight leaves missing between ff. 65 and 66, containing ll. 4960-5520.

- text out of order in Books I and II: ll. 950-1181 are inserted after l. 585 on f. 12r and extend to f. 15v, where the text returns to l. 586. These lines are then omitted from their proper place on f. 21v.

According to Lewis and McIntosh, Descriptive Guide (1982), p. 69, this manuscript is closely related to the following: London, British Library, MS Harley 1205; London, British Library, MS Additional 22283; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 41; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. a. 1; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. C. 319, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. poet. 139. They state that it is also related to the Lichfield subgroup comprised of: Holkham Hall, Wells, Norfolk, Library of the Earl of Leicester, MS 668; London, College of Arms, MS LVII; Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS English 50; New Haven, Yale University Library, MS Osborn a 13; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 156; Oxford, Trinity College, MS 16A; Oxford, Trinity College, MS 16B whose ultimate exemplar may have been London, British Library, MS Harley 1205.

Decoration:

Small initials in blue or red with contrasting red or blue pen-flourishing.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Lansdowne Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002060013
040-002074749

Is part of:

Lansdowne MS 1-1245 : Lansdowne Manuscripts

Lansdowne MS 348 : Prick of Conscience

Hierarchy:

032-002060013[0216]/040-002074749

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Lansdowne MS 1-1245

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1424

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 170/175 x 110/115 mm (text space: 125 x 75 mm, single columns, 27-34 lines).

Foliation: ff. 127 (single parchment endleaf, foliated as f. 1; plus three unfoliated modern paper endleaves, one at the beginning and two at the end).

Collation: i-xv⁸ (ff. 2-122), xvi^five (ff. 123-127).

Script: Gothic cursive (Anglicana formata).

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin: England (Staffordshire: scribal dialect, see LALME, I, pp. 114, 237).

Provenance:

'Jhon Boyce': inscribed with his name, sixteenth century (f. 1v); 'John B' (f. 21r).

Sir Henry Spelman (b. 1563/4, d. 1641), historian and antiquary: inscribed with his name (f. 1v).

William Petty (formerly Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister; purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807.

Publications:

[Henry Ellis and Francis Douce], A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: R. & A. Taylor, 1819), no. 348.

The Pricke of Conscience (Stimulus conscientiae): a Northumbrian poem by Richard Rolle de Hampole, ed. by Richard Morris (Berlin: A. Asher, 1863) [on the text].

Robert E. Lewis, 'The Relationship of the Vernon and Simeon Texts of the Pricke of Conscience', in So Meny People Longages and Tonges: Philological Essays on Scots and Mediaeval English Presented to Angus McIntosh, ed. by Michael Benskin and M.L. Samuels (Edinburgh: Benskin and Samuels, 1981), pp. 251-64 (pp. 255, 257, 259, and nn. 14, 16, 17, 19, 21, 26).

Robert E. Lewis and Angus McIntosh, A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the 'Prick of conscience', Medium Aevum Monographs, New Series, 12 (Oxford: Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature, 1982), pp. 68-69 [with additional bibliography].

Angus McIntosh, M.L. Samuels and Michael Benskin, A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English, 4 vols (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1986), I, p. 114.

Manuscripts of the West Midlands: A Catalogue of Vernacular Manuscript Books of the English West Midlands, c. 1300-c. 1475, Wendy Scase (project director)[http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/mwm/].

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)

Related Material:

From Ellis and Douce, A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts (1819), p. 107:

'8vo.

Richard Hampole's Pricke of Conscience, in English verse. Beg. "The myght of the Fader Allmighti." Written on vellum in the fifteenth century. This manuscript belonged to Sir Henry Spelman, whose name is written on the back of the first leaf, on which are scribbled some charms from Albertus Magnus.'