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
36 - Oxford, Wadham College, MS 13
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, a small late paper MS, single column, with Latin and French addenda
Provincial centre, probably Chester, s.xv, late in the third quarter
Contents
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(fols 1r–442r) Confessio Amantis, Prol. 1–VIII.3172.
Torpor ebes sensus scola.… (6 lines of Latin verse)
Off hem that written vs to fore < > Oure ioye may be endless | Amen
Prologue (fols 1r–17r) wants 728–94, but with no loss of leaf; Book I (fols 17r–68r); Book II (fols 68v–119r); Book III (fols 119r–157v); Book IV (fols 157v–169v and 273r–306v) missing a leaf after fol. 291, with IV.2386–2473; Book V (fols 170r–245v, 306v, explicit and incipit only, then text 307r–326v) wants a leaf before fol. 307, with V.1–78; Book VI (fol. 245v, explicit and incipit only, then text 246r–272v, 327r–330v); Book VII (fols 330v, explicit and incipit only, then text 331r–401r); Book VIII (fols 401r–446r).
Two missing leaves, one with IV.2386–2473 and the other with V.1–78. There is disorder in the text of Books IV and VI, seven quires containing fols 273–326 (according to the present foliation) which would properly have followed the present fol. 169 having been misbound between VI.2132 and 2133. Confusingly, the misbinding brought the two lost leaves into contiguity between fols 306 and 307, though in fact separated by more than two quires in the original collation. In order to provide consecutive text of the poem, the MS would have to be rebound 1–169, 273–326, 170–272, 327–446. Misbinding of leaves also accounts for the present disorder of the Prologue, which runs lines 1–92, 499–860 (loss of leaf in an exemplar accounts for the loss of 728–94), 93–144, 861–1044, 145–498, 1045–end (Macaulay [ed.], Works, II.clxiv), but this misbinding took place in the exemplar, since the present quiring shows no evidence of disturbance.
Text discussed in detail by Macaulay ([ed.], Works, II.clxiii–clxv), and allocated to his Recension III, lacking as it does the praise of Richard II and Chaucer, though it contains a wide variety of readings from different textual traditions.
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- A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis , pp. 251 - 256Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021