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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
Confessio Amantis, with Latin addenda and associated Latin verses, and Traitié.
London, s.xv, first quarter.
Contents
1
(fols 1ra–196vb) Confessio Amantis Prol. 1–VIII.3114*end
Torpor hebes sensus scola parua labor | minimusque, etc. (6 lines of Latin verse). Off hem þat writen vs | tofore < > Oure ioye may ben endeles
Prologue (fol. 1ra); Book I (fol. 7va, first two lines of Latin verse-heading only; English text, with decorative initial, fol. 7vb); Book II (fol. 29va); Book III (fol. 50va); Book IV (Latin verse-heading and gloss, fol. 66va; English text and initial, fol. 66vb); Book V (fol. 87vb); Book VI (fol. 132rb); Book VII (Latin verse-heading, fol. 145vb; Latin gloss, English text and initial, fol. 146ra); Book VIII (fol. 179ra).
Text: collated by Macaulay (ed.), Works, II.clv (sigil B): IIb. Macaulay (Works, II.3) notes the erasure, unique to Bodley 294, of ‘Regis anglie Ricardi secundi’, leaving a blank, in the Latin note to Prol. 34*, fol. 1ra, and also draws attention (II.clv, cxxxiv–v) to the fact that Bodley 294 is a ‘mixed’ text, with early (Ricardian) preface and rewritten (Henrician) conclusion. For a possible reason for the erasure, see PROVENANCE. For the omission of I.161, where ‘Iohn Gowere’ is named, see description of MS Bodley 693.
For further information about the following Latin and French addenda that Gower caused to be added to MSS of the Confessio, see Appendix III.
2
(fol. 197ra) ‘Explicit iste liber’
Explicit iste liber < > requiesce futurus
Longer six-line version with added dedication to Henry IV
Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.478.
3
(fol. 197ra) ‘Quam cinxere freta’
Quam cinxere freta < > stat sine meta
With rubric, ‘Epistola super huius, etc.’
Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.479.
4
(fols 197ra–199rb) Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz
Puis qil ad dit cy deuant < > saluement tenir (prose rubric)
Qualiter creator < > dominium possidebat (four-line prose rubric)
Le creatour de toute creature < > lamour parfit en die se iustifie
Macaulay (ed.), Works, I.379–92.
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