Manuscript Description Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.2. (581) | |
MS Appellation: | M. R. James catalogue 581 |
Title: | Confessio Amantis |
Author: | Gower |
Contents: | Confessio Amantis |
Language: | English and Latin |
Date Range: | 1400-1425 |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | 1 new paper + 2 older paper + 154 parchment leaves + 2 older paper + 1 newer paper |
Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper outer corners recto |
Quiring: | 8s |
Catchwords: | By the scribes, centred below the second column in a box in same ink as text. |
Page Size: | 373 x 264 |
Frame: | Pale brown ink; 6 x vertical enclosing columns and space for glosses in outer margin; 6 x horizontal enclosing top and bottom lines and running titles; ruled inside columns; in some quires ruling also fills space between columns and into margin for glosses. |
Writing Space: | 267 x 170 = 2 columns 267 x 73 |
Running Titles: | 'Liber' on verso and the Latin number on the recto of each opening. |
Flourished Initials: | Three-line red with blue penwork alternating with illuminated gold with silvery grey penwork; smaller one-line initials alternate blue with red penwork and red with silvery-grey penwork. |
Other Names (not owners): | Thomas Urswick, in drypoint on f. 120, 'possibly Thomas Urswick, successively Serjeant and Recorder of London (1453-71) and Chief Baron of the Exchequer (1471-9) (Doyle and Parkes, 209. |
Further Information: | James Catalogue; Doyle and Parkes article |