Resumen de Scribal Practices in the Prologue of Prick of Conscience: A Look into MS D.5
This paper examines the palaeography of Cambridge, St John’s College, MS D.5, a copy of the mediaeval poem Prick of Conscience written in a northern variety in the 15th century.
My description is based on the analysis of the digitised item and the manual transcription of the Prologue, making use of XML/TEI tags and special characters. The article covers the study of the origin of the manuscript, physical features, the script and scribes, the use and distribution of figurae, abbreviations and also decoration. This copy, belonging to Group II of the versions of Prick of Conscience, is peculiar because of the lack of physical and ornamental features, unlike other manuscripts of the same poem (Albán-Barcia in progress).
