Prick of Conscience

Description

19th-century pagination, probably by T. C. Neale.


Damp staining on several leaves.


Initials: 2 to 3-line initials in red for beginnings of sections.


Modern front flyleaves contain extensive 19th-century notes relating to the manuscript by T. C. Neale and F. A. Harrison.


Written in a large anglicana, but with single-compartment 'a'. It's a distinctive, unusual hand, perhaps 'amateur'.


Principal contents: ff. 1r-147v The Prick of Conscience. Some related additions in Latin on ff. 44r-v, 147v.


Purchased by the Brotherton Collection, from Maggs Bros., in 1950.


See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) p. 67; K. W. Humphreys and J. Lightbown, 'Two Manuscripts of the Pricke of Conscience in the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds', in: Leeds Studies in English, nos. vii-viii (1952), pp. 29-30; and R. E. Lewis and A. McIntosh, A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience (Oxford, 1982), pp. 55-56.

Features

Bindings


Bound in brown goatskin by Douglas Cockerell and Son, in 1954 (note at back). Previous binding of 1896 was in imitation vellum (MS 2240/4/11/5).

Provenance

In the 19th century belonged to T. C. Neale, governor of the Essex County Jail at Chelmsford. By 1898 passed to his grandson, Frederick A. Harrison; his sale at Sotheby's, 1920. In the collection of Sir Leicester Harmsworth until 1945, when again sold at Sotheby's.

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