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This manuscript contains the Confessio amantis, a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower. The summaries and elegiacs are written in Latin, as rubrics. The text consists of the first version, dedicated to Richard II, with verses to Chaucer. This copy lacks the final original page of fifty-eight lines; the final folio (162) is a replica replacement by the twentieth-century scribe, Edward Johnston, dated 14-15 September, 1924.
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+162+ii; 287 x 204 mm bound to 298 x 212 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; Collation: 1-20 (8), 21 (2, +1 +2 leaf in position 2 has been replaced); Catchwords: Original horizontal catchwords on lower right versos at: 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 104v, 112v, 120v, 128v, 136v, 144v, 152v
Two columns of fifty-nine lines each, ruled in purple ink; written area (inclusive of both columns): 213 x 140 mm
Gothic--anglicana
Two historiated initials (the author writing, fol. 1r; Nebuchadnezzar's dream, fol. 3v); illuminated initials and leaf sprays at the beginnings of each book
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Second front flyleaf is an original (or early) parchment leaf, with early annotations in a sixteenth-century English hand consisting of a nostalgic verse, signed H.S., mentioning Hanton Paget, estate of William, 1st Baron Paget, Secretary of State under Henry VIII
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
England
Second quarter of the fifteenth century
Nineteenth-century blue gilt morocco
Middle English (1100-1500)
Belonged to the Earl of Haddo, afterwards Lord Aberdeen
England
Second quarter of the fifteenth century
Middle English (1100-1500)
Belonged to the Earl of Haddo, afterwards Lord Aberdeen
This manuscript contains the Confessio amantis, a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower. The summaries and elegiacs are written in Latin, as rubrics. The text consists of the first version, dedicated to Richard II, with verses to Chaucer. This copy lacks the final original page of fifty-eight lines; the final folio (162) is a replica replacement by the twentieth-century scribe, Edward Johnston, dated 14-15 September, 1924.
Second front flyleaf is an original (or early) parchment leaf, with early annotations in a sixteenth-century English hand consisting of a nostalgic verse, signed H.S., mentioning Hanton Paget, estate of William, 1st Baron Paget, Secretary of State under Henry VIII
Gothic--anglicana
Two historiated initials (the author writing, fol. 1r; Nebuchadnezzar's dream, fol. 3v); illuminated initials and leaf sprays at the beginnings of each book
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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