Derek Pearsall, Linne R Mooney

A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis (eBook, PDF)

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Winner of the 2022 John Hurt Fisher Award from the John Gower Society

First comprehensive catalogue of the manuscripts of one of the most important medieval works, with full descriptions of their features.

The Confessio Amantis is John Gower's major work in English, written around the time that his acquaintance Geoffrey Chaucer was writing the Canterbury Tales. Extant manuscripts are numerous. At the end of the nineteenth century G. C. Macaulay had described the forty manuscripts then known to survive in the introduction to his edition, but some of these descriptions were very brief, and of course the other nine of whose existence he was then unaware were not included. This descriptive catalogue of all of the surviving manuscripts containing the Confessio is the first work to bring together extensive detailed descriptions of its forty-nine complete manuscripts and numerous fragments and excerpts; it will enable scholars of Middle English literature and manuscript studies to compare features across the corpus of surviving manuscripts or read detailed descriptions of individual manuscripts. Each description in this catalogue covers the manuscript's contents, artwork, physical qualities such as size, material, collation, foliation, etc., as well as additions by later users and provenance. There is also a lengthy introduction giving an overview of the corpus, and appendices for reference to the current whereabouts of the manuscripts, fragments and excerpts, and listing Gower's Latin and French works that appear in some of the manuscripts. Eight colour illustrations provide context for discussions of the miniatures and illuminated borders of some manuscripts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800103047
• Artikelnr.: 63205732

Autorenporträt

Derek Pearsall, Linne Mooney

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction MANUSCRIPTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1. Cambridge
University Library MS. Dd.8.19 2. Cambridge
University Library MS. Mm.2.21 3. Cambridge
Pembroke College MS. 307 4. Cambridge
Sidney Sussex College MS. 63 5. Cambridge
St Catharine's College MS. 7 6. Cambridge
St John's College MS. B.12 7. Cambridge
Trinity College MS. R.3.2 8. Glasgow University Library
Hunterian MS. 7 9. London
British Library MS. Additional 12043 10. London
British Library MS. Additional 22139 11. London
British Library MS. Egerton 913 12. London
British Library MS. Egerton 1991 13. London
British Library MS. Harley 3490 14. London
British Library MS. Harley 3869 15. London
British Library MS. Harley 7184 16. London
British Library MS. Royal 18.C.xxii 17. London
British Library MS. Stowe 950 18. London
College of Arms MS. Arundel 45 19. London
Society of Antiquaries MS. 134 20. Manchester
Chetham's Library MS. 6696 21. Nottingham
University Library
Middleton Collection MS. WLC/LM/8 22. Oxford
Bodleian Library MS. Arch. Selden B.11 23. Oxford
Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 35 24. Oxford
Bodleian Library MS. Bodley 294 25. Oxford
Bodleian Library MS. Bodley 693 26. Oxford
Bodleian Library MS. Bodley 902 27. Oxford
Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 3 28. Oxford
Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 51 29. Oxford
Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 609 30. Oxford
Bodleian Library MS. Lyell 31 31. Oxford
Christ Church MS. 148 32. Oxford
Corpus Christi College MS. 67 33. Oxford
Magdalen College MS. Lat. 213 34. Oxford
New College MS. 266 35. Oxford
New College MS. 326 36. Oxford
Wadham College MS. 13 MANUSCRIPTS IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE 37. Cologny
Switzerland
Martin Bodmer MS. CB 178 38. olim Marquess of Bute 85 (now in a private collection in Europe) MANUSCRIPTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 39. Chicago
IL
Newberry Library MS. +33.5 40. New Haven
CT
Yale University
Beinecke Library
Osborn MS. fa. 1 41. New York
NY
Columbia University Library MS. Plimpton 265 42. New York
NY
Pierpont Morgan Museum and Library MS. M.125 43. New York
NY
Pierpont Morgan Museum and Library MS. M.126 44. New York
NY
Pierpont Morgan Museum and Library MS. M.690 45. Philadelphia
PA
Rosenbach Museum and Library MS. 1083/29 46. Princeton
NJ
Princeton University
Firestone Library MS. Garrett 136 47. Princeton
NJ
Princeton University
Firestone Library MS. Taylor 5 48. San Marino
CA
Henry E. Huntington Library MS. EL 26 A 17 49. Washington
DC
Folger Shakespeare Library MS. SM.1 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