Prick of conscience : manuscript, [13--]
- Title
- Prick of conscience : manuscript, [13--]
- Creator / Contributor
- Rolle, Richard, 1290?-1349
- Place of Origin
- England
- Date
- 13uu
- Description
- Extent: 77 leaves, bound : vellum ; 19 cm.
print - Subjects
- Theological anthropology--Christianity--Early works to 1800
Judgment of God--Early works to 1800
Death--Religious aspects--Christianity--Early works to 1800
Eschatology--Early works to 1800
Heaven--Early works to 1800
Hell--Early works to 1800
Purgatory--Early works to 1800
Rapture (Christian eschatology)--Early works to 1800 - Abstract
- A poem in seven parts describing the wretchedness of man, the bitterness of the world, inevitable death, purgatory, the end of the world, hell, and the joy of heaven.
- Genre
- Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1300-1350.
Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1350-1400.
Rules (layout features)
Catchwords.
Straps (fasteners)
Wooden boards.
Thongs (binding components)
Pricking (parchment marking)
Early works to 1800 - Notes
- Written in an unidentified hand in an English bastarda script with flourished blue and burnished gold initials and rubrication; lacks three leaves at the beginning.
Title supplied by cataloger.
In Middle English and Latin.
Bound in calf over oak boards, blind tooled.
In a tray case, 21 cm.
MS Eng 515. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Also available in an electronic version. - Series
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
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- This item appears in
- Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
- More item details
- HOLLIS Record
