Confessio Amantis, 8 single leaves missing and two quires at the end London, s.xv, first quarter (late)

Contents

(fols 1r–181v; numbered 1–179 because of doubling of 98 and 106) Confessio Amantis, Prol. 1 to VIII.782, ending incomplete

Prologue (fol. 1r) missing 504–657 (wants original fol. 4, replaced by a numbered blank parchment leaf, with the missing text supplied in a s.xvii hand, six lines being left blank at the bottom of fol. 4vb because of a mistake in the ruling); also missing 984–I.30 (wants original fol. 7, replaced by a numbered blank parchment leaf); Book I (fol. 8ra) begins imperfect (missing lines 1–30 due to missing fol. 7), also missing I. 199–336 (wants original fol. 9, replaced by a numbered blank parchment leaf); also missing I.3402–II.108 (wants original fol. 28, replaced by a numbered blank parchment leaf); Book II (fol. 29ra) begins imperfect, missing 1–108 due to wanting fol. 28; Book III (fol. 49r); Book IV (fol. 65v); Book V (fol. 87r) missing V.7718–VI.40 (wants original fol. 129, replaced by a numbered blank parchment leaf); Book VI begins imperfect (missing VI.1–40 due to wanting fol. 129) and missing VI.2343–VII.60 (wants original fol. 143, replaced by a numbered blank parchment leaf); Book VII begins imperfect (missing VII.1–60 due to wanting fol. 143) and missing VII.5399–VIII.126 (wants a leaf between fols 175–76, not replaced); Book VIII begins imperfect (missing 1–126) and missing VIII.271–441 (wants fol. 177, replaced by a numbered blank parchment leaf), and also wants leaves (two quires of eight, reckoning 145 lines per folio in text of 2331 lines) after fol. 179, with VIII.783–3114*. All but the last of the eight missing single leaves would have contained pictures or borders (see ILLUSTRATION, DECORATION, below).

Text: collated by Macaulay (sigil G), version Ib. Macaulay (ed., Works, II.cxliv–cxlv) comments on the close relation (and superior spelling) to London, Society of Antiquaries, MS 134. See also John Young and P. Henderson Aiken, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, 1908), 10–11.