The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssEL 26 A 17

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9807

Shelfmark:

mssEL 26 A 17

Title:

Confessio amantis

Confessio amantis

Author:

Gower, John, 1325?-1408

John Gower WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1385 and 1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + 172 + ii : parchment ; 248 x 353 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Bastard anglicana.
Layout: 18(-2, 7) 2-68 78(-1, 2, 3; the 7th leaf, f. 50, a substitute) 8-98 108(-2, 4, 5, 7) 118(-1, 2) 12-148 158(-7) 16-178 188(-2) 198 208(-1, 2) 218 228(-1, 2) 238 244(+3; the last leaf formerly a pastedown). Catchwords in lower right margin; 2 columns of 46 lines ruled in brown lead with double rules at the 4 sides of the text space, with an additional double rule across upper margin for...
Decoration: On f. 1, an 18-line miniature, badly damaged, of Nebuchadnezzar's dream.
Other Decoration: On f. 1, a full border of regularly intertwining pairs of leaves and vines in gold, blue and dark red (no green), a 6-line dark red initial on a gold ground, infilled with a coat of arms (see below) and 2 other coats of arms in the outer and lower borders (see below).
Assigned Date: s. XIVex.
Possibly as many as 3 people copied medical recipes on otherwise blank leaves at the end of the book: f. 169v: Ayenst the newe Ague Anno domini D xxxix; A playster for the heedde & temples; A drynk for the same desese; A metsen for the Collec and the stone; ii, f. 171v, Ayenst the newe Ague; pleyster far [sic] the heedde & temples; iii, f. 172, A Speciall medecyn for the Sickenesse callid þe...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/21/2012.
On f. 172, erased possession note, s. XV. On f. 170, possession notes, s. XVIin, of William Downes: "Iste liber pertinet And bear it wel in mynde/ Per me Gulielmum downes so gentelle and so kynde/ A vinculis doloris Iesue do hym brynge/ Ad vitam etername [sic] to lyfe everlastynge. Amen" ( Hanna, "Addenda," n. 25 ), and "William Downes mee tenet"; on f. 21, rough strapwork initials, "W[illiam...

Keyword:

Poems

manuscripts (documents)

illuminations (paintings)

England

Fourteenth century

coats of arms

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862038

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens