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PRICK OF CONSCIENCE AND OTHER TEXTS (IN ENGLISH)
Catalogue reference: Sion L40.2/E25
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- Sion L40.2/E25
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Title (The name of the record)
- PRICK OF CONSCIENCE AND OTHER TEXTS (IN ENGLISH)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 14th century-15th century
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Description (What the record is about)
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A miscellany of texts in English verse, written in several hands, as follows: ff. i-ii. Flyleaves (early 19th cent). At f. i is a list of contents in the hand of Robert Watts, Librarian of Sion College 1799-1842. 1. ff. 1-12v. Begins imperfectly: 'Bot yheue of yam oft with yam to mete / for all seme yai bitter yai ar swete ...'. Ends imperfectly: 'Bot ye loue of god yat es clene / Of werldly luf yat here es sene'. Latin tags and titles are interspersed, as in art. 4. Seven hundred and sixty-four lines of verse remain. Much of the text on ff. 3-8v is parallel to and sometimes verbally identical with 'Jacob's Well', ed. A. Brandeis (Early English Text Society 115, 1900), pp. 294-300. 2. ff. 13-38v. 'Of þe Passion' of crist Als wittenes Nichodeme. Bitid ye tyme yat Tiberius ...' The Gospel of Nicodemus in verse. Printed from this copy by W. H. Hulme, 'The Middle-English Harrowing of Hell and Gospel of Nicodemus' (Early English Text Society, Extra Series, 100, 1907), pp. 23-134. f. 31 is a small fragment only (cf. Hulme ed., p. 101). 3. ff. 39-47v. 'Fadir and son and haly gaste / Alle myghty god in Trinite / Thurgh bysekyng of mary chaste ... hider I come with ye rede of ye' (ends imperfectly). A dialogue of St. Bernard and Our Lady, here without title. Edited by C. Horstman, 'Yorkshire writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole, an English father of the Church, and his followers', ii (1896), 274-9 (lines 1-413). 4. ff. 48-133v. 'Þe might of ye fader almyghty ...' The 'Prick of Conscience', a popular devotional poem concerning the state of mankind, worldly life, death, purgatory, doomsday, the torments of hell and the joys of heaven. Ends imperfectly at line 9220 of the edition by Richard Morris (1863) and wanting nine leaves before this point, with lines 748-821, 4107-220, 4430-537, 4641- 848, 5320-447, 6720-7034. For editions see: 'The Pricke of Conscience (Stimulus Conscientiæ). A Northumbrian poem. Copied and edited from manuscripts in the Library of the British Museum, with an introduction, notes, and a glossarial index.' ed. Richard Morris (Berlin, 1863). 'Prik of Conscience', ed. by James H. Morey. TEAMS Middle English Text Series (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2012). 'Richard Morris's Prick of Conscience. A corrected and amplified reading text', ed.Ralph Hanna and Sarah Wood. Early English Text Society Original Series 342, 2013. 5. f. 134. A parchment leaf. Part of the office for Friday in the third week of Advent on the upper half of a leaf of a noted missal in an English hand, formerly used as a paste-down. 15th cent. Cf. 'The Sarum Missal, edited from three early manuscripts', ed. J. W. Legg (Oxford, 1916), p. 20.
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A digital copy is available via the online image management system: http://images.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/luna/servlet/s/eh3ppy Microfilm: Lambeth Palace Library Box 762
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- Lambeth Palace Library
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Sion College
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- ff. ii + 133 + ii
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- Belonged to John Holonde, monk of Westminster (first mass in 1472; sub-prior in 1500): 'Iste liber pertinet fratri Iohanni holonde Monacho Westm', f. 134. 'John Bumpsteade' is scribbled on f. 83, 17th cent. Not recorded at Sion College in 1666, but acquired by 1697. The only significant collection acquired during these years was given by George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley; see the description of Sion L40.2/E62. In Sion College by 1697. Recorded there in Edward Bernard, 'Catalogi Manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae' (Oxford, 1697) ii, no. 4081. Transferred from Sion College to Lambeth Palace Library, 1996.
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Leather binding, 226 x 155 mm., early 19th cent. Like Sion L40.2/L. 4. Paper leaves (except f. 134, a parchment binding leaf), c. 219 x 142 mm. Written space c. 180 x 90 mm. 32-48 long lines. Frame ruling. Collation: 1(14) wants 1, 2; 2(12); 3(14); 4(14) wants 10-14 after f. 47; 5(12); 6(12) wants 1 before f. 60; 7-8(12); 9(12) wants 1 after f. 94, 4 after f. 96, 6 and 7 after f. 97, and 12 after f. 101; 10(12); 11(12) wants 1-3 before f. 114; 12(12) wants 12 after f. 133. Written in anglicana, usually current, by three or four hands: (i) quires 1, 5, 6; (ii) quires 2-4; (iii) quires 7-9, by a scribe who tried not to link his minims and was at first fairly successful in not doing so; (iv) quires 10-13, perhaps the same as (ii). Red initials, usually unornamented.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/b5a8f957-003b-426f-a6b5-2c8e843c5966/
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SION COLLEGE MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION
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SION COLLEGE: ENGLISH MANUSCRIPTS
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PRICK OF CONSCIENCE AND OTHER TEXTS (IN ENGLISH)