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A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Hardcover)
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Hardcover)
Series: Publications of the John Gower Society
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Winner of the 2022 John Hurt Fisher Award from the John Gower
Society First comprehensive catalogue of the manuscripts of one of
the most important medieval works, with full descriptions of their
features. The Confessio Amantis is John Gower's major work in
English, written around the time that his acquaintance Geoffrey
Chaucer was writing the Canterbury Tales. Extant manuscripts are
numerous. At the end of the nineteenth century G. C. Macaulay had
described the forty manuscripts then known to survive in the
introduction to his edition, but some of these descriptions were
very brief, and of course the other nine of whose existence he was
then unaware were not included. This descriptive catalogue of all
of the surviving manuscripts containing the Confessio is the first
work to bring together extensive detailed descriptions of its
forty-nine complete manuscripts and numerous fragments and
excerpts; it will enable scholars of Middle English literature and
manuscript studies to compare features across the corpus of
surviving manuscripts or read detailed descriptions of individual
manuscripts. Each description in this catalogue covers the
manuscript's contents, artwork, physical qualities such as size,
material, collation, foliation, etc., as well as additions by later
users and provenance. There is also a lengthy introduction giving
an overview of the corpus, and appendices for reference to the
current whereabouts of the manuscripts, fragments and excerpts, and
listing Gower's Latin and French works that appear in some of the
manuscripts. Eight colour illustrations provide context for
discussions of the miniatures and illuminated borders of some
manuscripts.
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