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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
Confessio Amantis (ten leaves lost), with Latin addenda
London, s.xv, first quarter
Contents
1
(fol. 1ra–170rb) Confessio Amantis, Prol. 1–3114*
Torpor hebes sensus scola par | ua minimusque, etc. (6 lines of Latin verse).
Of hem þat writen us tofore < > Oure ioie may ben endeles. Amen.
Prologue (fol. 1ra); Book I (fol. 8vb); Book II (fol. 28rb); Book III (Latin verses 1–4, fol. 47ra; Latin verses 5–8, Latin gloss, English text and initial, fol. 47rb); Book IV (Latin verses, fol. 61vb; Latin gloss, English text and initial, fol. 62ra); Book V (fol. 81va) wants one leaf after fol. 109 (5550–5739), one leaf after fol. 111 (6140–6325), and eight leaves after fol. 118 (7676–7844end, also VI.1–1373); Book VI (fol. 119ra) wants 1–1373; Book VII (fol. 124rb); Book VIII (fol. 153vb).
Text: collated by Macaulay (sigil L): Ic. ‘In correctness of text and spelling the text is decidedly inferior to [other members of the group]’ (Macaulay [ed.], Works, II.cxlix). There are close associations with C [Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 67] in Prologue and Book I (Macaulay [ed.], Works, II.cxlviii), perhaps, suggests Griffiths (‘The Poem and its Pictures’, 171), as the result of the retention of a portion of an exemplar ‘in order to standardise the shifting positions of miniatures’.
For further information about the following Latin and French addenda that Gower caused to be added to MSS of the Confessio, see Appendix III.
2
(fol. 170rb) ‘Explicit iste liber’
Explicit iste liber < > pagina grata britannis
Earlier four-line version, without dedication to the earl of Derby.
Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.478.
3
(fol. 170rb) ‘Quam cinxere freta’
Quam cinxere freta < > stat sine meta
With preceding rubric, ‘Epistola super huius’
Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.479.
4
(fol. 170rb–170va) ‘Quia vnusquisque’
Quia unusquisque < > specialiter intitulatur
Earlier version, favourable to Richard II.
Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.479–80.
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