Prick of conscience
Contributors: Blomefield, Francis, 1705-1752, former owner; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner; Kyng, John, former owner; Martin, Thomas, 1697-1771, former owner; Scott, Thomas, former owner
Series: Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Published: 13uu
Language: enm; lat
Number of pages: 77
Subjects: Theological anthropology; Christianity; Early works to 1800; Judgment of God; Death; Religious aspects; Eschatology; Heaven; Hell; Purgatory; Rapture (Christian eschatology)
Description: 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.

De Ricci, 966.

Linda Ehrsam Voigts, Harvard Library Bulletin, v. 33, no. 1 (1985): 17.

MS Eng 515. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Also available in an electronic version.