Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Descriptions of Individual Manuscripts
- Manuscripts in the United Kingdom
- Manuscripts in Continental Europe
- Manuscripts in the United States of America
- Appendix I Summary List of Manuscripts, with date, lines missing, other contents and note of Macaulay’s classification; with Fragments (brief descriptions) and Extracts listed at the end
- Appendix II Manuscript Sigla used by Macaulay, in alphabetical order
- Appendix III Gower’s Latin Addenda to the Confessio and other pieces, not by Gower, that appear in Confessio Manuscripts
- Works Cited
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
- Volumes Already Published
- PlateSection
3 - Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 307
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Descriptions of Individual Manuscripts
- Manuscripts in the United Kingdom
- Manuscripts in Continental Europe
- Manuscripts in the United States of America
- Appendix I Summary List of Manuscripts, with date, lines missing, other contents and note of Macaulay’s classification; with Fragments (brief descriptions) and Extracts listed at the end
- Appendix II Manuscript Sigla used by Macaulay, in alphabetical order
- Appendix III Gower’s Latin Addenda to the Confessio and other pieces, not by Gower, that appear in Confessio Manuscripts
- Works Cited
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
- Volumes Already Published
- PlateSection
Summary
Confessio Amantis, with Latin addenda.
s.xv, c. 1420–30.
Contents
1
(fols 1ra–197ra) Confessio Amantis, Prol. 1 to VIII.3114*end
Torpor hebes sensus scola… (6 lines of Latin verse)
Of hem þat writen vs to fore < > Oure Ioie may ben endelees Amen Explicit
Prologue (fol. 1ra); Book I (fol. 7vb); Book II (fol. 28rb); Book III (fol. 49rb); Book IV (explicit and incipit on 65va, plus two lines Latin in rubric, rest starts top 65vb); Book V (fol. 87va); Book VI (fol. 132rb); Book VII (fol. 146ra); Book VIII (fol. 178vb). The outer edge of folios 1rb and 1va has been torn off from the leaf, with loss of text from some of the ends of lines in 1rb and beginnings of lines of 1va. The ends of lines on 1rb that are lost begin in the middle of the gloss beside 34* in Macaulay’s edition with ‘labores’ (this MS writes glosses in the text column), followed by ends of lines 35*–55*, 57*–58*, 60*–61*, 63*–65*, 69*, and on 1va the beginnings of all lines of the column, beginning 76*, are lost except for lines at the bottom of the column, Prol. 151–54.
Text: not seen by Macaulay, but belongs, according to Fisher, Gower: Moral Philosopher, 305, to his recension Ic (with the six-line ‘Explicit’).
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’ (in red, also the next two items)
Explicit iste liber < > sub eo requiesce futurus
Six-line version, with dedication to the earl of Derby.
Edited from other MSS, like the next two items, by Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.478.
3
(fol. 197ra) ‘Quam cinxere freta’
Quam cinxere freta < > stat sine meta
With rubric ‘Epistola super huius’
Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.479.
4
(fol. 197ra–rb) ‘Quia vnusquisque’
Quia unusquisque < > specialiter intitulatur
Earlier version, favourable to Richard II.
Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.479–80.
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021