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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2223

Shelfmark:

Garrett MS. 136

Title:

Confessio amantis

Confessio amantis

Author:

Gower, John, 1325?-1408

John Gower WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1425

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English; prefatory matter in Latin

Middle English WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 191 leaves : parchment ; 233 x 158 (184 x 130) mm bound to 245 x 174 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Drury, Henry, 1778-1841

Henry Drury WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961

Robert Garrett WIKIDATA

Note:

Incipit: “Torpior(!) obes(!) sensus scola parua labor minimusque Causant quo minimus ipse minora canam. Qua tamen engisti lingua canit insula bruti Anglica cauente(!) metra iuuante loquar. Ossibus ergo carens qua conterit ossa loquelis; Absit et interpres stet procul oro malus. Incipit Prologus. Of hem þat wryten vs tofore, þe bokes dwelle and we þerefore, be tau3t of þat wat writen þo...”
Explicit: [book 8]: “Where resteþ loue and al pes, Oure joy may be endeles. Amen Amen Amen. Explicit iste liber."
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. ii (paper) + 191 + ii (paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 36-42 lines in two columns ; lightly frame-ruled in brown ink.
Decoration: The prologue and books 1-8 open with a 2- to 6-line blue initial with red penwork. Divisions within books marked with similar 1- to 2-line initials.
Unknown early provenance. Various unidentified dealer's markings appear on fols. [i]v and [ii]r. Owned by Rev. Henry Drury who may have acquired it from the bookseller Thomas Norton Longman. Purchased by bookseller Thomas Thorpe for Sir Thomas Phillips. Sold from his collection in 1899 by Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge to Bernard Quaritch, who sold it to Robert Garrett on 1 October 1905. His...

Keyword:

Poetry

Gold tooled bindings

illuminated manuscripts

Parchment (Paper)

Gilt edges

Blind tooled bindings

decorated initials

Christian ethics

Manuscripts, English (Middle)

New Jersey--Princeton

Early works

England

Courtly love

Love poetry, English (Middle)

Christian poetry, English (Middle)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113450493506421

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Holding Institution:

Princeton University