Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Descriptions of Individual Manuscripts
- Manuscripts in the United Kingdom
- Manuscripts in Continental Europe
- Manuscripts in the United States of America
- Appendix I Summary List of Manuscripts, with date, lines missing, other contents and note of Macaulay’s classification; with Fragments (brief descriptions) and Extracts listed at the end
- Appendix II Manuscript Sigla used by Macaulay, in alphabetical order
- Appendix III Gower’s Latin Addenda to the Confessio and other pieces, not by Gower, that appear in Confessio Manuscripts
- Works Cited
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
- Volumes Already Published
- PlateSection
4 - Cambridge, St Catharine’s College, MS 7
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Descriptions of Individual Manuscripts
- Manuscripts in the United Kingdom
- Manuscripts in Continental Europe
- Manuscripts in the United States of America
- Appendix I Summary List of Manuscripts, with date, lines missing, other contents and note of Macaulay’s classification; with Fragments (brief descriptions) and Extracts listed at the end
- Appendix II Manuscript Sigla used by Macaulay, in alphabetical order
- Appendix III Gower’s Latin Addenda to the Confessio and other pieces, not by Gower, that appear in Confessio Manuscripts
- Works Cited
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
- Volumes Already Published
- PlateSection
Summary
Confessio Amantis, ‘Explicit iste liber’, ‘Quam cinxere’, ‘Quia unusquisque’. s.xv, second quarter
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(fols 1ra–188vb) Confessio Amantis, Prol.1–VIII.2939
Torpor ebes sensus… (6 lines of Latin verse).
Of hem that written ous tofore < > Of loue as for þy final ende
Prologue (fol. 1ra); Book I (fol. 7va) wants one leaf, with text of I.3089–3276 (as noted, fol. 25v, lower margin, in a hand of s.xvi: ‘desunt multa’); Book II (fol. 26v) wants one leaf, with text of II.3331–3518; Book III (fol. 48ra); Book IV (fol. 64ra); Book V (fol. 82ra) wants one leaf, with text of V.1182–1363, and another leaf, with text of V.6225–6388; Book VI (fol. 127rb) wants two leaves, with text of VI.107–460; Book VII (fol. 139ra) wants one leaf, with text of VII.984–1155; Book VIII (fol. 171va) wants one leaf, with text of VIII.2940–3114*. There is much confusion in the text of Books III, IV and V, due to omissions, repetitions and probable disorder in the leaves of the exemplar. See below, Physical Description, III.
Text: collated by Macaulay (sigil Cath) and assigned to his recension Ib (ed., Works, II.cxlvi–vii).
For further information about the following Latin and French addenda that Gower caused to be added to MSS of the Confessio, see Appendix III.
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(fol. 189ra) ‘Explicit iste liber’
Explicit iste liber qui transeat obsecro < > sub eo requiesce futurus Six-line version, with praise of earl of Derby, written as if prose (7½ lines)
Macaulay (ed.), Works, II.478.
NB. fol. 189, which contains the Latin addenda, is in fact not numbered and is placed at the beginning of the MS. We call it fol. 189 and talk about it as if it were the last leaf, which it should be.
3
(fol. 189ra) ‘Quam cinxere’
Quam cinxere freta < > stat sine meta
With rubric, ‘Epistola super huius opusculi’, written below ‘Quam cinxere’ even though a space of five lines is left above ‘Quam cinxere’ to take the rubric as in other MSS.
Macaulay (ed.), Works, II.478.
4
(fol. 189ra–rb) ‘Quia unusquisque’
Quia unusquisque < > specialiter intitulatur
Later version with condemnation of Richard II and praise of Henry, earl of Derby.
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021