33 - Oxford, Magdalen College, MS Lat. 213

Summary

Confessio Amantis (nine leaves lost), with ‘Explicit iste liber’; also near-contemporary Table of Contents in English

London, s.xv, third quarter, late

Contents

1*

(flyleaves i verso–ii verso) Confessio Amantis, Table of Contents.

Here Foloweth In what leffe that ye schall fynd the | talle that ye woll seke fore Eueri syd of the leffe one < > The other part of the table ye schall fynd at the latter end of the boke.

Seventy-six entries, covering the text up to page 174 (see also Item 4* below), with an entry inserted later (by the same scribe) for the tale of Canacee (page 97), ‘Howe ye brother & ye syster loued to gether & what betyd ther of ’. Page-numbers are shown in Roman at the left and in Arabic at the right. Single column.

Harris, ‘Ownership and Readership’, 237, describes the table of contents in detail, and provides an edition of it as her Appendix IV, 298–303; see also Echard, ‘Pre-Texts’, 274–76.

2

(fols 1ra–187rb, pp. 1a–377b) Confessio Amantis, Prol. 1–VIII.3172

Torpor ebes sensus scola parua labor minimusque, etc. (6 lines of Latin verse).

Of hem that writen vs tofore < > Oure ioye may ben endeles. | Amen

Prologue (fol. 1ra, p. 1a); Book I (Latin verse-heading and gloss, fol. 7va, p. 14a; English text and initial, fol. 7vb, p. 14b); Book II (fol. 27va, p. 54a) lacks one leaf after fol. 22, with 409–586; Book III (Latin verse-heading and gloss, fol. 47vb, p. 94b; English text and initial, fol. 48ra, p. 95a); Book IV (Latin verse-heading and gloss, fol. 63vb, p. 126b; English text and initial, fol. 64ra, p. 127a); Book V (Latin verse-heading [gloss omitted], fol. 85ra, p. 169a; English text and initial, fol. 85rb, p. 169b) wants eight leaves after fol. 88, with 701–2163; Book VI (Latin verse-heading begins, fol. 128ra, p. 255a; rest of Latin verse-heading, Latin gloss, English text and initial, fol. 128rb, p. 255b); Book VII (fol. 141vb, p. 282b); Book VIII (fol. 171rb, p. 341b).