Confessio amantis.

Description

Title: Confessio amantis.
Creator: Gower, John, 1325?-1408.
Published / Created: [ca. 1393]
Publication Place: [England],
Abstract: Manuscript fragment, on vellum, in a single hand, of text from Book IV of Gower's Confessio Amantis.
Description: Byname: Stafford Gower (fragment)
Decoration: initials in gold, red, blue and purple.
From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Layout: double columns of 36 lines (complete columns are of 46 lines)
Script: formal bastard anglicana.
Taken from the Stafford Gower (Huntington Library MS EL 26 A 17) and used as binding waste.
Extent: 1 l. : parchment ; 204 x 145 mm.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--England--14th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Gower, John,--1325?-1408.--Confessio amantis.
Subject (Topic): English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437. and John Gower, Confessio Amantis. Takamiya MS 98.