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Manuscript Description Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 67 | |
| Title: | Confessio Amantis |
| Author: | Gower |
| Contents: | Confessio Amantis (A version) |
| Language: | English and Latin |
| Date Range: | 1390-1415 |
| 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: | 3 old paper stubs + 2 old parchment stubs (parts of a deed of some kind?) + 1 old paper + 1 original parchment flyleaf + 207 + 2 parchment leaves originally blank which may have been end of quire or flyleaves + 1 old paper + 2 blank parchment stubs + 3 old paper stubs |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil |
| Quiring: | 8 |
| Catchwords: | By the scribe to the right of centre under the right column in the same ink as the text with underlining with raised left side; when the portion on next folio is in rubric, catchwords in rubric also. |
| Page Size: | 415 x 270 |
| Frame: | 4 x vertical enclosing two columns, 4 x horizontal enclosing top and bottom lines; not ruled for running titles or catchwords; ruled within. very fine black-brown ink; pricking survives on a few folios. |
| Writing Space: | 263 x 83 per column = 263 x 182 |
| Incipits and Explicits: | Rubrics usual for Confessio Amantis. |
| Marginal Headings: | Rubric for Latin portions |
| Running Titles: | Book numbers in red as running titles on rectos as in 'vij-us' on f70, with 'Liber' on versos. |
| Borders: | The first folio has a full bar border otherwise three quarter borders in gold, pink and blue. |
| Illuminated Initials: | 3- or 4-line initials in blue or pink with white highlights on illuminated gold ground with blue, pink and orange with white highlights; smaller 2- or 3-line gold initials on blue and pink ground with white highlighting and flower sprays in blue, pink with white highlights; one-line initials in gold with purple or blue with red penwork around them; yellow wash for first initial of every line. |
| Paragraph Marks: | Oddly stylised paraphs in blue before marginal glosses with red penwork. |
| Flourished Initials: | One-line initials in gold with purple or blue with red penwork around them |
| Other Names (not owners): | William Rawson, 1580. On f1 above the bar border is 'Liber Willelmi Rawson Anno Domini 1580' and 'Crispe me Iure tenet at bottom of f1 is 'Liber CCC Oxon: 1676 on f209, an original flyleaf is 'Liber partinet Thomam Cryspe Ciuem et Mercerum Londinarium' and another mercer's mark or possibly a scribal mark. Latin sayings added to ff208-208v in 16th century. |
| Further Information: | Coxe 2.24 |