Feb 9, 2016
The Prick of Conscience was an enormously popular 14C poem about penitence, and Ms. Codex 196 is one of its numerous surviving witnesses. The second part of the poem begins on fol. 21r with a very English illuminated initial A-- if you want to follow along and practice your paleography skills, here is the TEAMS edition of the text. Manuscript culture being what it is, the two texts diverge as often as they concur, but that’s part of the fun of it!
Manuscript description and digital images can be found here at OPenn.