MS. Douce 157
Summary Catalogue no.: 21731
Contents
Language(s): English
(fols. i recto–xi verso)
Notes by Douce and Edward Umfreville.
(fol. xii verso)
Inscription, ‘He that this boke did furst …’
(fols. 1r–114v)
The Prick of Conscience 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:
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–v)
Note by Douce.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Good initial (defaced). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 771)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Edward Umfreville: inscribed, fol. 1r.
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-05-31: Andrew Dunning Updated contents with consultation of original.