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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2223

Shelfmark:

Garrett MS. 136

Title:

Confessio amantis

Place:

England

TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1425

fifteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Middle English; prefatory matter in Latin

Middle English Linked Data indicator

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.

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. iv and iir. 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 gift to...

Keyword:

Blind tooled bindings

Gold tooled bindings

illuminated manuscripts

Gilt edges

Poetry

decorated initials

Parchment (Paper)

Love poetry, English (Middle)

Courtly love

Christian ethics

Early works