Manuscript Description USA, Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b.29 | |
| MS Appellation: | olim Phillipps 8942 |
| Title: | Confessio Amantis |
| Author: | Gower |
| Contents: | Confessio Amantis (second recension) pages xii + 350 |
| Language: | English and Latin |
| Datable: | Mid fifteenth century |
| Date Range: | 1450-1475 |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | xii + 350 |
| Pagination: | Paginated i-xii+1-4, 5-87 (verso which should be “88†is unpaginated), 89, 89 [sic], 90-350 [19.2-7 cut out, stubs remain, included in the pagination=277-288]. |
| Quiring: | 8s: 24 gatherings of 8; Quire 24 wants 7, 8 [lacks 8. 3120-3172 of text]. |
| Page Size: | 385 x 295 mm |
| Frame: | Four verticals creating two text columns, four horizontals enclosing top and bottom lines, ruled within columns, drypoint or silver-grey barely visible; no ruling for marginal glosses or names of speakers, for running titles or for catchwords. |
| Marginal Headings: | Rubric headings and all Latin text, plain rubric initials, initials each line washed with yellow. |
| Borders: | No illustrations. |
| Other Names (not owners): | Formerly John Towneley (d. 1813) [bookplate]; formerly Phillipps 8942; sold to H.S. Nichols & Co. [March 1895. £132]; to Maggs; olim W. T. Smedley [bookplate]. On last paper fly at front, 17th-century, verse owner’s inscription: “Jane Sergeant Heer book God giue | Her grace ther on to Look & when she die | Toll the bell tak this book & vse it well†|
| Miscellaneous Info: | Thanks to Dan Mosser and Folger Shakespeare Library website |