Confessio amantis, [circa 1400].
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Description
- Title
- Confessio amantis, [circa 1400].
- Creator
- Gower, John, 1325?-1408
- Contributor
- Cockerell, Douglas, binder.
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment in Anglicana (Scribes 1 and 2) and Secretary script (Scribe 3). The text is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-1393.The manuscript was produced around 1400 or the beginning of the fifteenth century in the same manner as the other surviving manuscripts from this time, presumably under the author's supervision
Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia."
- Description
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In Middle English, Latin and French.
There are red and blue 1-3 line initials at small and large paragraph breaks. Books II (f. 13r), V (76r), VI (125r), VII (140r), and VIII (175v) contain initials with full page demi-vignette borders in gold, red, blue, green, orange, and brown.
Rubrications at running titles, initials, Latin commentary.
Binding: yellow morocco on wooden boards, by Douglas Cockerell and Son, 1962.
Sir George Meyrick, Bart., who sold the manuscript after his father's death in 1960, said that the manuscript had been in his family's possession for over 100 years and that in 1775 the house was almost destroyed by fire. Many family papers were lost and perhaps it was then that the manuscript became damp and mildewed. - Provenance
- Ex libris Sir George Meyrick. Gift of James M. Osborn, 1961.
- Extent
- 201 35 cm. x 27 cm. f. ;
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English, Middle (1100-1500)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Osborn fa1
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Name)
- Gower, John, 1325?-1408.
- Subject (Topic)
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English poetry
Latin poetry
French poetry - Subjects
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Gower, John, 1325?-1408
English poetry > 14th century
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500
Latin poetry > 14th century
French poetry > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Meyrick, George, Sir > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- John Gower, Confessio Amantis. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9362041
- Object ID (OID)
- 2077096
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