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Confessio amantis MS 1083/29
Rosenbach Museum & Library
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Abstract

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.

Physical Description

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

Layout

Two columns of fifty-nine lines each, ruled in purple ink; written area (inclusive of both columns): 213 x 140 mm

Script

Gothic--anglicana

Decoration

Two historiated initials (the author writing, fol. 1r; Nebuchadnezzar's dream, fol. 3v); illuminated initials and leaf sprays at the beginnings of each book

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Notes

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

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Place of Origin

England

Date

Second quarter of the fifteenth century

Binding

Nineteenth-century blue gilt morocco

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Provenance

Belonged to the Earl of Haddo, afterwards Lord Aberdeen

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Place of Origin

England

Date

Second quarter of the fifteenth century

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Provenance

Belonged to the Earl of Haddo, afterwards Lord Aberdeen

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

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.

Notes

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

Script note

Gothic--anglicana

Decoration Note

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.

References
Binding Images

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.

Spine

Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
Rosenbach Museum & Library
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