Princeton University, Garrett MS. 136.
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS2223
- Shelfmark:
- Garrett MS. 136.
- Title:
- Confessio amantis
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1400 and 1425
- Language:
- Middle English; prefatory matter in Latin
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113450493506421
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3d55f8d2-f52c-4180-8188-2e4828def98c/manifest
- Holding Institution:
