Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Eng 515

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Harvard University Library
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Houghton Library, Harvard University
Shelfmark
  • MS Eng 515
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Date
  • 13uu
Language
  • Middle English
  • Latin
Title
  • Prick of conscience : manuscript, [13--]
Agent
Description
  • Physical Description:
    77 leaves, bound : vellum ; 19 cm.

    Summary:
    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.

    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.

    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

    Form / Genre:
    Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1300-1350.
    Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1350-1400.

Place
  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
    • Hereford?, England
    • England, Durham ?
    • England, Durham?
    • England, probably Durham
    • England, Oxford (?)
    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
    • England, Durham (?)
    • England, London/Westminster
    • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
    • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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