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- [15 cent., first ½]. (Creation)
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Extent and medium
ii, 108 ff. (twentieth-century pencil foliation; nineteenth-century pencil foliation, 1-105 (omitting f. 40), in bottom left hand corners of leaves; ff. i-ii, 107-108 are paper flyleaves supplied when rebinding in nineteenth century) : Parchment ; 210 x 150 mm. (written space c. 190-200 mm. high).
Half bound in brown calf, [19 cent.], in the same style as Brogyntyn MS II.1; 'MORAL POETRY 15. CENTY.' and 'PORKINGTON MS. No.' (in gold on spine); '20' (paper label on spine).
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Archival history
MS 22 in Thomas Phillipps's 1837 printed catalogue of Porkington MSS; MS 20 in the revised versions of the catalogue (Brogyntyn MS I.23 and NLW MS 1197A) and in the Second Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London, 1874).
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Scope and content
A volume containing three Middle English texts: The Pricke of Conscience (ff. 1-94 verso), followed by the Trentalle sancti Gregorii (ff. 94 verso-96) and the seven penitential Psalms (ff. 96-106 verso). Lewis and McIntosh (1982), p. 33, place the dialect of our text of the Pricke in Monmouthshire, west Gloucestershire or possibly south Wales. There is comment on Book iv of the Pricke, on Purgatory, Protestant in standpoint, written in an italic hand, [16 cent., second ½] (ff. 28 verso-35 passim), but no other marginalia.
Written in anglicana formata by a single, inelegant scribe. Punctuated by point at verse ends and, in Latin text, by point and punctus elevatus. Ink brown, with greenish appearance through the parchment. The following, despite some appearances to the contrary, are probably by the scribe: (i) corrections, (ii) sidenotes in Latin, (iii) a substantial number of additional and variant verses, presumably deriving from a MS other than the exemplar, and (iv) headings, mostly in English, some long and explanatory, marked for insertion in the text and followed by the letter r (for rubric), derived perhaps from the same source as the additional and variant verses. All but (i) occur only in the text of the Pricke; (iii) and (iv) were added after (ii). The marking for rubrication suggests that our manuscript, with its additions, may have been intended to serve as the exemplar of another.
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Conditions governing access
Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
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Script of material
Language and script notes
Middle English, Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Damaged by damp, mould and mice along top edge and bottom right hand corner, with no loss of text except for a few letters in the top lines; repaired, probably during nineteenth-century rebinding.
Finding aids
A detailed list of the contents is available at https://archives.library.wales/external_documents/brogii6.pdf
Generated finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/5770837 (January 2022)
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Publication note
Robert E. Lewis and Angus McIntosh, A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience, Medium Aevum Monographs, n.s., 12 (Oxford, 1982), pp. 33-34.
Publication note
Martin Connolly, 'Trentalle Sanci Gregorii, from NLW MS Brogyntyn ii.6: Edited Transcription with Critical Introduction', Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature, 26 (2011), 23-37.
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Original title.
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Formerly Porkington MS 20.
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Secundo folio: To know hys workes.
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The only ruling is a single line in plummet for the left hand margin. 40-54 lines (40 on f. 1 only).
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Collation: 1-12 (8), 13 (10). Signed i-iiii in the bottom right hand corners of leading leaves of quires (the iiii only clear in quires 4 and 13, no v shows in the latter); catchwords.
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Two-line initials in red for the opening of texts and Books, a few elsewhere. In the Pricke, Latin quotations and their authors' names, and running title are in red; in the Trentalle the running title; in the Psalms, the Latin text. Verse initials are touched in red.
Note
Preferred citation: Brogyntyn MS II.6 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].