A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Lyell empt. 6

Contents

The Prick of Conscience
Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fol. 1r has a bar border on four sides in gold and purple with leaves and clusters of daisies and daisybuds in blue, green, and purple. Initials on fols. 12v, 22v, 35r, 53r, 86r and 96v in gold on backgrounds in sections of pink and blue with sprays of gold discs and leaves, and of daisy buds on fol. 35r. Other initials blue flourished in red up to fol. 50v. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 819)

History

Origin: 15th century, early ; English, South

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from A. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Oxford by James P. R. Lyell (1971)

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.