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
49 - Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, MS SM.1
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
London, s.xv, mid-century.
Contents
(pp. i–xii and pp. 1–350) Confessio Amantis, Prol. 1–VIII.3119 NB The Arabic numbering by pages is used here throughout except for the first six leaves, which are numbered by pages in small Roman numerals, i–xii (see PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION, II, below).
Torpor hebes scola parva, etc. (six lines of Latin verse).
Of hem ϸat written ous tofore < > As Tullius som tyme wrot.
Prologue (p. ia); Book I (p. ia); Book II (p. 38b); Book III (p. 76b); Book IV (p. 104b); Book V (p. 144a); Book VI (p. 227b); Book VII (p. 253a) lacks six leaves (stubs remain, numbered 277–88) after p. 276, with text of VII.2083–3162; Book VIII (p. 314b) lacks VIII.3120–72end. The second leaf of the last quire is missing (pp. 341–42), but no text is lost (the text surrounding the missing leaf, on pp. 340 and 343, is the Lover’s Prayer to Venus, VIII.2217–2300, complete, with no break, twelve stanzas in rhyme royal, a change of metre which may have confused the paginator?). The last two leaves of the last quire are lost after p. 350, with text of VIII.3120–72end and presumably some of the Latin concluding apparatus. Latin glosses are sporadically omitted in Books V–VII.
Text: mostly has the character of a later version, though there are affiliations with the seven MSS that constitute Macaulay’s Recension II (ed., Works, II.cxxxiii–cxxxv), e.g. omission of glosses at V.7007 and 7022, as in San Marino, Huntington Library, MS EL 26 A 17, Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 63 and Nottingham UL, MS WLC/LM/8; addition of text at V.7015–34, 7087–7103, 7105–32, as in those same three MSS and also BL, MS Add. 12043, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.2, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 294 and the present MS, though the additions in the Folger MS are in a later hand (see PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION, VI, below). Macaulay (ed., Works, II.clxv) records the MS as Phillipps 8942, with sigil P3, but does not collate it.
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- A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis , pp. 333 - 338Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021