Confessio amantis

Description

Title: Confessio amantis
Creator: Gower, John, 1325?-1408
Published / Created: [ca. 1393]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript fragment, on vellum, in a single hand, of text from Book IV of Gower's Confessio Amantis
Description: In Middle English.
Taken from the Stafford Gower (Huntington Library MS EL 26 A 17) and used as binding waste.
Layout: double columns of 36 lines (complete columns are of 46 lines)
Script: formal bastard anglicana.
Decoration: initials in gold, red, blue and purple.
Byname: Stafford Gower (fragment)
Provenance: Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 1 leaf : 204 mm x 145 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval England 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Gower, John, 1325?-1408.
Subject (Topic): English literature
English poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Gower, John, 1325?-1408
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: John Gower, Confessio Amantis (Takamiya MS 98). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.