Confessio Amantis (extensively defective) with Latin addenda; also four short poems by Chaucer.

London. The date 1432 (noted by Macaulay, II.cxlvi; now illegible) was added, with a new shield painted over old arms erased (s.xvi), fol. 1r (the decoration is later than that date, s.xv, third quarter).

Contents

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(fols 1ra–137va) Confessio Amantis Prol. 176–VIII.3114*end

Prol. (begins fol. 1ra) wants 1–175 (except for fragments of 85* and 125), 455–78, 505–27, 716–26, 979–1061; Book I (fol. 6vb) wants 199–3446end; Book II (fol. 8ra) wants 1–56; Book III (fol. 25vb, incipit and first three lines of Latin verse-heading; English text begins at fol. 26ra) wants 1150–2774end; Book IV (fol. 32ra) wants 1–1516, 1643–68; Book V (fol. 43rb) wants 7807–44end; Book VI (fol. 82ra) wants 1–154; Book VII (fol. 93rb); Book VIII (fol. 121va).

Fols 1–7 once contained Prol. 1–I.198 complete, but are now much mutilated and defaced. Of fol. 1r, only the bottom border remains, with fragments of script in red ink at the bottom of col. a and of Prol. 85* (‘[….] that luste apiere’) at the bottom of col. b; fol. 1v has Prol. 125 (‘Nought vpon oon but vpon alle’) at the bottom of col. a and Prol. 176 at the bottom of col. b; fol. 3 has lost Prol. 455–78 (recto) and 505–27 (verso); fol. 4 has had a miniature cut out, with loss of Prol. 716–26 on verso; fol. 6, of which only a thick stub remains, has Prol. 932–78 (fol. 6ra) and (acephalous) Prol. 1062–end, Latin verse-heading to Book I, I.1–10, and five lines of Latin gloss (fol. 6vb). Seventeen leaves are lost after fol. 7, with text of I.199–II.56; sixteen leaves and the top inner quarter of a seventeenth (fol. 32ra/32vb) are lost after fol. 31 (III.1150–IV.1516, 1643–68); one leaf is lost after fol. 81 (V.7807–VI.154). V.1548–1748 and 1749–1952 are transposed, fols 51–52. In all, thirty-four leaves are lost, and others badly damaged.