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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
Confessio Amantis, with Latin addenda
London, s.xv, early
Contents
1
(fols 1ra–206vb) Confessio Amantis, Prol. 1–VIII.2956*. The first leaf, a flyleaf, is numbered ‘i’, and the MS is missing a leaf at the end (unnumbered) which would have comfortably accommodated the remaining 158 lines of the Confessio and the associated Latin verses and gloss (which are in the text-column), the MS continuing with fol. 207 containing the Latin addenda.
Torpor hebes sensus scola parua minimusque…&c (6 Latin verses) Off hem þat writen vs tofore < > As þou hast do þy schrift aboue (VIII.2956*)
Prologue (fol. 1ra) wants three leaves after fol. 1 (missing leaves and stubs are not numbered), with loss of Prol. 138–594; Book I (fol. 5rb) wants a leaf after fol. 5, stub remaining, with loss of I.84–217; Book II (fol. 26vb); Book III (fol. 49vb); Book IV (fol. 67va); Book V (fol. 91rb) wants a leaf after fol. 115, with loss of V.3994–4161; Book VI (fol. 139ra) wants a leaf after fol. 149, with loss of VI.1736–1893; Book VII (fol. 153rb) wants a leaf, a stub remaining, after fol. 161, with loss of VII.1330–1470; Book VIII (fol. 187rb introductory Latin, but English begins on fol. 188ra) wants a leaf after fol. 206, with loss of VIII.2956*–3114*, and another leaf after fol. 207, presumably with the rest of ‘Quia unusquisque’ and more Latin addenda.
Text: not known to Macaulay, but clearly representing the early version of the poem (Doyle and Parkes, ‘Production of Copies’, 195, n. 76).
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. 207ra) ‘Explicit iste liber’ (all Latin addenda in red)
Explicit iste liber < > stet pagina grata britannis
Earlier four-line version, with no mention of the earl of Derby.
Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.478.
3
(fol. 207ra–rb) ‘Quam cinxere’
Quam cinxere freta < > gloria stat sine meta
With rubric ‘Epistola super huius’
Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.479.
4
(fol. 207rb) ‘Quia unusquisque’
Quia unusquisque < > specialiter intitulatur
Early version, with praise of Richard II.
Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.479–80.
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