Pearsall / Mooney A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's <i>Confessio Amantis</i>

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80010-304-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 15, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Publications of the John Gower Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pearsall, Derek

Mooney, Linne R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

MANUSCRIPTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
1. Cambridge, University Library MS. Dd.8.19
2. Cambridge, University Library MS. Mm.2.21
3. Cambridge, Pembroke College MS. 307
4. Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College MS. 63
5. Cambridge, St Catharine's College MS. 7
6. Cambridge, St John's College MS. B.12
7. Cambridge, Trinity College MS. R.3.2
8. Glasgow University Library, Hunterian MS. 7
9. London, British Library MS. Additional 12043
10. London, British Library MS. Additional 22139
11. London, British Library MS. Egerton 913
12. London, British Library MS. Egerton 1991
13. London, British Library MS. Harley 3490
14. London, British Library MS. Harley 3869
15. London, British Library MS. Harley 7184
16. London, British Library MS. Royal 18.C.xxii
17. London, British Library MS. Stowe 950
18. London, College of Arms MS. Arundel 45
19. London, Society of Antiquaries MS. 134
20. Manchester, Chetham's Library MS. 6696
21. Nottingham, University Library, Middleton Collection MS. WLC/LM/8
22. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Arch. Selden B.11
23. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 35
24. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Bodley 294
25. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Bodley 693
26. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Bodley 902
27. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 3
28. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 51
29. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 609
30. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Lyell 31
31. Oxford, Christ Church MS. 148
32. Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS. 67
33. Oxford, Magdalen College MS. Lat. 213
34. Oxford, New College MS. 266
35. Oxford, New College MS. 326
36. Oxford, Wadham College MS. 13

MANUSCRIPTS IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE
37. Cologny, Switzerland, Martin Bodmer MS. CB 178
38. olim Marquess of Bute 85 (now in a private collection in Europe)

MANUSCRIPTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
39. Chicago, IL, Newberry Library MS. +33.5
40. New Haven, CT, Yale University, Beinecke Library, Osborn MS. fa. 1
41. New York, NY, Columbia University Library MS. Plimpton 265
42. New York, NY, Pierpont Morgan Museum and Library MS. M.125
43. New York, NY, Pierpont Morgan Museum and Library MS. M.126
44. New York, NY, Pierpont Morgan Museum and Library MS. M.690
45. Philadelphia, PA, Rosenbach Museum and Library MS. 1083/29
46. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University, Firestone Library MS. Garrett 136
47. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University, Firestone Library MS. Taylor 5
48. San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS. EL 26 A 17
49. Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library MS. SM.1

Appendix I: Summary List of Manuscripts, with date, lines missing, other contents
and note of Macaulay's classification; with Fragments (brief descriptions) and
Extracts listed at the end
Appendix II: Manuscript Sigla used by Macaulay, in Alphabetical Order
Appendix III: Gower's Latin Addenda to the Confessio and Other Pieces, not by
Gower, that Appear in Confessio Manuscripts

Works Cited
Index of Manuscripts
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pearsall Derek:
The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.