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Prickyng of love and other works
Uniform Title
Stimulis amoris. Middle English
Title
Prickyng of love and other works.
Created
England, 1400-1499.
Physical Description
1 item (i (paper) + ii + 174 + i (paper) leaves) : parchment ; 245 mm x 180 mm
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Script: Anglicana.
Ian Doyle identifies the scribe as Stephen Dodesham, see Doyle, "Stephen Dodesham of Witham and Sheen," in Of the Making of Books (1997), 94-115.
Layout: single columns of 30 lines.
Decoration: Paragraph marks in alternating red and blue. 2-line initials in blue with red pen flourishes. Rubrication. Chapter numbers at head of text, numbers in red, pilcrows in blue.
Binding: 18th-century calf. Manuscript note, rear flyleaf verso: Spine repaired by Fifield of the Bodleian, 1961.
Secundo folio: Al forwoundred.
Manuscript, including flyleaves, foliated in three later hands: fols. i-iii, 1, 1*, 2-174. Fol. 92 bound in upside down.
Bookseller description available.
In Middle English and Latin.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Dominican nunnery, Dartford, Kent. Autograph: This book is yove to Betryce Chaumbre. And aftir hir decese to sister Emme Wynter. And to sistir denyse Caston nonnes of Dertforthe. And so to abide in the saam hous of the nonnes of dertforthe for evre... Autograph: Ellen Haburlaie est verus possessor. Autograph: Richard Baxter. Autograph: John Vavasour. Autograph: William Richardson. Autograph: William [Emelaw]. Autograph: Ald. Metcalfe. Autograph (fol. 3v): Roberte. Autograph (fol. 39v): Maria [J]elena. Autograph (fol. 53v): Marye Haburley. Formerly owned by Dom Odo Langdale, né Marmaduke Joseph Grattan Langdale (1861-1934). By bequest to Downside Abbey. Bookstamp of Downside Abbey Library, accession number 26542, and booklabel: Ex Bibliotheca Abbatiae S Gregorii Magni de Downside. Purchased from Sotheby's, London sale, 2020 December 8, lot 1, on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection Fund, 2020.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Illuminated manuscript on parchment containing several works: 1) The Prickyng of Love, a Middle English translation of the Stimulus Amoris often attributed to Walter Hilton (fols. 1r-v, 1*r-90r); 2) "How a man shal know..." (fols. 90v, 92v, 92r); 3) Prologue to Pore Caitif, "This tretyse suffisith to eche cristen man and womman..." (fols. 94r-101v); 4) Pore Caitif (fols. 102r-168r); 5) Speculum spiritualium, part V (extract), in Latin (fols.168v-172r); 6) Sermo beati Augustini notabilis ad parachianos, in Latin (fols. 172r-173v) .
Variant and related titles
Pore caitif.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
March 24, 2022
References
Aelred Watkin, "Some Manuscripts in the Downside Abbey Library," Downside Review 59 (1941): 75-83.
Prickyng of love. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Prickyng of love. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Illuminated manuscripts - England - 15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 15th century.
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