MS. Douce 157

Summary Catalogue no.: 21731

Language(s): Middle English

(fols. i recto–xi verso)

Notes by Francis Douce and Edward Umfreville

(fol. xii verso)

Inscription, ‘He that this boke did furst …’

(fols. 1r–114v)

The Prick of Conscience (DIMEV 5398-11),

Rubric: Incipit stimulus consciencie De trinitate prima pars qualiter factus est mundus et omnia per ipsum

Incipit: The myghte of þe fader almyghtty

Explicit: Þat of nouƿt made alle þynge. Amen.

Final rubric: Explicit stimulus consciencie

Added in a sixteenth-century hand:

(DIMEV 1901-1),

Colophon: He that to this wyll take good hed / And stoddy therin it dellygentlly / He shall haf heuen bles thell he sued / That shall laste perpetuall Amen

(fol. 118r–118v)

Note by Douce

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: xiii + 119 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 10.25 × 7.375 in.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 771

Good initial (defaced)

History

Origin: c. 1400 ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Eduardi Umfreville: inscribed, fol. 1r.

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897) and the Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. to the Bodleian Library (1840). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 540

Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, p. 27

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-08-23: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)

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