Special Collections & Archives: MS.F.4.10: Chastising of God's Children, etc.

LUL MS.F.4.10: Chastising of God's Children, etc. In Middle English. England. Late 15th century.

Physical description: On parchment. i + 100 + i leaves, 280 x 190 mm. Imperfect.

Contents: Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection, book 1 to chapter 91); late medieval quire signatures; framed catchwords.

Decoration: f.1 continuous framed border; f.2 border on on all but outer margin; initials: blue with white on gold; 2-line gold on pink and blue, sprays extended into margin; 1-line blue and red.

Binding: Medieval blind-stamped (six patterns) brown leather over bevelled wooden boards; rebacked with former spine leather pasted on.

Provenance 1500-1600: inscriptions include 'Thomas Barker is my name' f.23 and 'Deuonshire debebat' f.89v

Provenance 1916-1916: Quaritch catalogue 344, item 10 (£80)

Provenance 1945-1945: Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth (1870-1937) sale at Sothebys 15 Oct. 1945, lot 1957.

Provenance 1949-1949: Liverpool University bookplate: The gift of Mrs Harold Cohen, 1949. Gift accession no. G28901.

Published citations and unpublished notes:

1936: (As Harmsworth MS) Classed as MS type C by Helen Gardner, 'The text of the Scale of Perfection', Medium Aevum V(1) p.17 (1936)

1957: f.1-42v collated as L for the edition by Joyce Bazire and Edmund Colledge, Blackwell, 1957. University of Liverpool Archive D1085 is the manuscript of the collations.