Description: Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis, Hardcover by Pearsall, Derek; Mooney, Linne; Griffiths, Jeremy (CON); Harris, Kate (CON), ISBN 1843846136, ISBN-13 9781843846130, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The Confessio Amantis is John Gowers major work in English, written around the time that his acquaintance Geoffrey Chaucer was writing the Canterbury Tales. Extant manuscripts are numerous. At the end of the nineteenth century G. C. Macaulay had described the forty manuscripts then known to survive in the introduction to his edition, but some of these descriptions were very brief, and of course the other nine of whose existence he was then unaware were not included. This descriptive catalogue of all of the surviving manuscripts containing the Confessio is the first work to bring together extensive detailed descriptions of its forty-nine complete manuscripts and numerous fragments and excerpts; it will enable scholars of Middle English literature and manuscript studies to compare features across the corpus of surviving manuscripts or read detailed descriptions of individual manuscripts. Each description in this catalogue covers the manuscripts contents, artwork, physical qualities such as size, material, collation, foliation, etc., as well as additions by later users and provenance. There is also a lengthy introduction giving an overview of the corpus, and appendices for reference to the current whereabouts of the manuscripts, fragments and excerpts, and listing Gowers Latin and French works that appear in some of the manuscripts. Eight colour illustrations provide context for discussions of the miniatures and illuminated borders of some manuscripts.
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Book Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's
Number of Pages: 420 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Item Height: 1.2 in
Subject: Medieval, European / German, Communication Studies
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 31.1 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Linne R. Mooney, Derek Pearsall
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: Issn Ser.
Format: Hardcover
