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Title

English religious poems

Authors

• Maidstone, Richard, d. 1396

Other related names

• Rolle, Richard, 1290?-1349, attributed name
• Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109, attributed name
• Halter, Richard, former owner
• Quawden, Francis, former owner
• Ireland, Gilbert Blackburne, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 196
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915517823503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122448447
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1551782

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle English and Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1400

Place

England

Summary

Collection of three devotional works in metrical verse.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Spine title: Seven Penitential Psalms. The Pricke of Conscience. The Lamentation of St. Anselm.
   
• Title of first work as given in the ms.: Seuene Psalmis (colophon, f. 12v). No attribution is given in the ms. The beginning of the text is missing. This work is ascribed variously to Richard Maidstone (or Maydestone) and Richard Rolle (cf. Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue).
   
• Title of second work as given in the ms.: Stimulus conscie[ncie] (colophon, f. 118r). There is no attribution in the ms. In the past it has generally been attributed to Richard Rolle, but this attribution is not certain.
   
• Third work has no title in the ms. Text may be incomplete, since it ends abruptly without a colophon. There is no attribution in the ms. This is the only known ms. version of this work, which appears never to have been published. It is a homiletic poem of 200 octosyllabic verses. It appears to be based on St. Anselm of Canterbury's "Deploratio male amissae virginitatis."
   
• Incipit of third work: Qwhan drighten dere his doom schal dresse / And alle oure dedys demen on a day ... (f. 118v).
   
• Upper cover and two endleaves detached. Back hinge wearing. Blank margin on f. 80 cut away. First and last couple ff. badly stained and soiled, possibly due to damp. Text very difficult to read on last few ff. due to wearing and staining.
   
• Imperfect. The following leaves are known to be wanting: one before f. 1; one between ff. 7-8; one between ff. 12-13; two between ff. 14-15; eight between ff. 25-26; one between ff. 49-50 ; one between ff. 78-79; and one between ff. 91-92.
   
• Many marginal entries in 16th- and 17th-century hands.
   
• Description of this manuscript by Patrick O'Neill on file in the Library. It consists of seven typewritten leaves and is undated. It contains a useful discussion of the date and collation of the ms., as well as other physical details. It also includes a brief discussion of the contents.
   
• Description from an unidentified dealer's catalog on file in the Library.
   

Extent

122 leaves : 243 x 161 (179 x 77) mm. bound to 257 x 172 mm

Foliation

Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 122 + ii (modern paper); [i], [1-121]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. This foliation was added after the missing folios were lost. Some leaves have traces of an earlier foliation.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern brown full morocco (Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London).

Layout

Written in a single column of 40 lines, frame-ruled in ink.

Decoration

Extensive use of red and some blue for headings and initials. 4-line blue initials with red filigree throughout, 6-line illuminated initials (f. 21r and 118v), and 8-line illuminated initials (f. 30r and 34v).

Script

Written in several hands using a basically similar Gothic hybrid script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Richard Halter and Francis Quawden (15th-century inscription (?), f. 77r).
   
• Formerly owned by Gilbert Ireland Blackburne of Hale Hall (description from catalog, probably Quaritch).
   
• Appears in Bernard Quaritch's 100th anniversary catalogue (1947), no. 131; sold by Quaritch, 1947.
   

Subjects topical

• Christian poetry, English (Middle)
• Devotional literature, English (Middle)
• English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500
• English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500
• Religious poetry, English
• Repentance--Poetry

Genres

• Codices
• Anthologies
• Poems
• Manuscripts, English (Middle)--14th century
• Manuscripts, English (Middle)--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• 15th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• Private devotional text
• Christian
• English
• England
• Devotion
• Bible
• Biblical

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Seven penitential psalms, f. 1r
• fol. 13r — Stimulus consciencie, f. 13r
• fol. 118v — Lamentation of St. Anselm, f. 118v

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Penwork initial, Initial B, f. 1v
• fol. 3r — Penwork initial, Initial D, f. 3r
• fol. 5v — Penwork initial, Initial M, f. 5v
• fol. 7r — Penwork initial, Initial D, f. 7r
• fol. 10r — Penwork initial, Initial D, f. 10r
• fol. 11r — Penwork initial, Initial D, f. 11r
• fol. 13r — Owner note, f. 13r
• fol. 15r — Penwork initial, Initial B, f. 15r
• fol. 16v — Penwork initial, Initial T, f. 16v
• fol. 19v — Penwork initial, Initial T, f. 19v
• fol. 21r — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 21r
• fol. 21v — Marginal note, f. 21v
• fol. 26r — Marginal note, f. 26r
• fol. 29r — Marginal note, f. 29r
• fol. 30r — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 30r
• fol. 30v — Marginal note, f. 30v
• fol. 31v — Marginal note, f. 31v
• fol. 32r — Penwork initial, Initial F, f. 32r
• fol. 33r — Marginal note, f. 33r
• fol. 34v — Illuminated initial, Initial M, f. 34v
• fol. 35r — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 35r
• fol. 36r — Marginal note, f. 36r
• fol. 37r — Penwork initial, Initial I, f. 37r
• fol. 37r — Marginal note, f. 37r
• fol. 38v — Marginal note, f. 38v
• fol. 39r — Marginal note, f. 39r
• fol. 42r — Marginal note, f. 42r
• fol. 43r — Penwork initial, Initial M, f. 43r
• fol. 43v — Marginal note, f. 43v
• fol. 44r — Marginal note, f. 44r
• fol. 45v — Penwork initial, Initial T, f. 45v
• fol. 48v — Penwork initial, Initial P, f. 48v
• fol. 51r — Penwork initial, Initial T, f. 51r
• fol. 53v — Marginal note, f. 53v
• fol. 57r — Marginal note, f. 57r
• fol. 57v — Marginal note, f. 57v
• fol. 58r — Penwork initial, Initial M, f. 58r
• fol. 60r — Penwork initial, Initial I, f. 60r
• fol. 60v — Marginal note, f. 60v
• fol. 61v — Penwork initial, Initial O, f. 61v
• fol. 62r — Marginal note, f. 62r
• fol. 63r — Penwork initial, Initial O, f. 63r
• fol. 63v — Penwork initial, Initial W, f. 63v
• fol. 64r — Marginal note, f. 64r
• fol. 64v — Penwork initial, Initial C, f. 64v
• fol. 67r — Penwork initial, Initial M, f. 67r
• fol. 69r — Marginal note, f. 69r
• fol. 72v — Penwork initial, Initial A, f. 72v
• fol. 73r — Marginal note, f. 73r
• fol. 74v — Penwork initial, Initial A, f. 74v
• fol. 76r — Penwork initial, Initial O, f. 76r
• fol. 77r — Owner note, f. 77r
• fol. 78v — Penwork initial, Initial A, f. 78v
• fol. 80r — Marginal note, f. 80r
• fol. 82r — Marginal note, f. 82r
• fol. 86r — Marginal note, f. 86r
• fol. 87r — Marginal note, f. 87r
• fol. 89v — Penwork initial, Initial N, f. 89v
• fol. 90r — Marginal note, f. 90r
• fol. 90v — Marginal note, f. 90v
• fol. 94r — Manicule, f. 94r
• fol. 94r — Marginal note, f. 94r
• fol. 94v — Penwork initial, Initial T, f. 94v
• fol. 95v — Penwork initial, Initial B, f. 95v
• fol. 96r — Marginal note, f. 96r
• fol. 99v — Penwork initial, Initial B, f. 99v
• fol. 100v — Marginal note, f. 100v
• fol. 101r — Marginal note, f. 101r
• fol. 102r — Marginal note, f. 102r
• fol. 113v — Penwork initial, Initial H, f. 113v
• fol. 116r — Penwork initial, Initial N, f. 116r
• fol. 117r — Penwork initial, Initial N, f. 117r
• fol. 117v — Penwork initial, Initial B, f. 117v
• fol. 118v — Illuminated initial, Initial Q, f. 118v