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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 |