Confessio Amantis, paper, single column, with Latin addenda, also Traitié, with associated Latin verses; Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; ‘Eneidos Bucolis’. Also, not by Gower, Verses on Queen Margaret’s Entry (on an added quire) and two Marian lyrics

s.xv, second quarter

Contents

(fol. 1) blank, except for later inscriptions

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(fols 2r–4v) Verses on Queen Margaret’s Entry into London

Lacks beginning; space at the top of fol. 2v indicates awareness of the loss of an eight-line stanza with heading.

DIMEV 3541, NIMEV 2200. Same hand (s.xv, second half) as Items 12*–14*. Heading in the hand of John Stow (s.xvi, fourth quarter). Printed by Carleton Brown, ‘Lydgate’s Verses on Queen Margaret’s Entry into London’, Modern Language Review, 7 (1912), 225–34; also by Gordon Kipling, ‘The London Pageants for Margaret of Anjou: A Medieval Script Restored’, Medieval English Theatre, 4 (1982), 5–27. Brown attributes the work to Lydgate, following Stow, and has been followed in this by subsequent scholars; however, Kipling demonstrates that it is not by Lydgate.

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(fols 5r–356v) Confessio Amantis Prol. 1–VIII.3172end

Prologue (fol. 5r); Book I (fol. 18r); Book II (fol. 56v); Book III (fol. 93v); Book IV (fol. 120v); Book V (fol. 158v); Book VI (fol. 240v); Book VII (fol. 266r, but English text at 266v); Book VIII (fol. 323v).

Text: collated by Macaulay (sigil H2): III. ‘The MS’, says Macaulay (ed., Works, II.clx), ‘appears to be copied directly from F [Bodleian, MS Fairfax 3], and gives an excellent text, reproducing that of the Fairfax MS with considerable accuracy, and for the most part copying also its mistakes and peculiarities’ (Macaulay gives a list of these), but correcting some obvious mistakes (he gives a few examples).