The complete works of John Gower, volume 2 : $b The English worksGower, John
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The complete works of John Gower, volume 2 : $b The English works
Gower, John
Poetry
p. 234, note on 313, _for_ H₁ ... B₂ _read_ H₁ ... B₂, Δ
p. 252, note on 983, _add_ pater Δ
p. 257, note on 1164, _for_ XRCLB₂ _read_ H₁XRCLB₂
p. 260, note on 1258, _for_ AdT _read_ AdTΔ
p. 262, note on 1336 (_margin_), add _om._ Δ
p. 265, note on 1448, _for_ X ... B₂, WH₃ _read_ X ... B₂, Δ, WH₃
p. 266, note on 1473, _for_ AdBT _read_ SAdBTΔ
p. 269, note on 1605, _for_ SBΛ _read_ BΛ _and for_ AdTΔ _read_ SAdTΔ
p. 280, note on 2023, _for_ Phoreus T _read_ Phoreus TΔ
p. 282, l. 2077, _for_ hounde _read_ hound
p. 284, note on 2166, _for_ W _read_ Δ, W
p. 289, l. 2357, _for_ pouere _read_ povere
p. 292, note on 2444, _for_ H₁ ... B₂ _read_ H₁ ... B₂, SΔ
p. 307, l. 225, _for_ distruid _read_ destruid
p. 314, l. 498, _for_ accordant _read_ acordant
p. 334, l. 1224 (_margin_), _add_ Confessor
p. 346, l. 1653, _for_ accompte _read_ acompte
p. 351, note on 1872, _for_ AC _read_ AC, S
p. 387, l. 3188, _for_ By _read_ Be
p. 396, l. 3507, _for_ thinge _read_ thing
p. 421, l. 716, _for_ harme _read_ harm
p. 464, note on 745 ff., _add_ The authority here followed is the
_Trésor_ of Brunetto Latini, pp. 84-88 (ed. 1863).
p. 468, note on 463 ff., _add_ The authority for this is perhaps the
_Trésor_, p. 191.
p. 473, l. 11, _for_ 7101), Spertachus for Cyrus (vii. 3418), &c.
_read_ 7101).
p. 489, note on 2459 ff., _for_ I am unable [to say where Gower found
this version of the story. The name Geta is quite unknown in the
classical] form of it. _read_ The name Geta was taken by Gower from the
_Geta_ of Vitalis Blesensis, a dramatic piece in Latin elegiacs founded
on Plautus, in which Geta takes the place of Sosia: see Wright’s _Early
Mysteries_, &c., pp. 79-90.
p. 509, note on 2606, for _on the ferst,_ read _on the ferste,_
AN ADDITIONAL MS. OF THE ‘CONFESSIO AMANTIS’
On June 12, 1902, a very valuable manuscript of the _Confessio
Amantis_, which had not hitherto been described, was offered for sale
by Messrs. Sotheby. By the kind assistance of Dr. Furnivall, who was
allowed by the auctioneers to examine the book before the sale, I am
able to give the following description of it.
FOUNTAINE MS. Contains _Confessio Amantis_ with ‘Explicit’ (six lines),
‘Quam cinxere,’ and ‘Quia vnusquisque,’ after which ‘Deo gracias.’
Then at the end an alphabetical index to the contents of the poem.
Parchment, ff. 213 (originally), 17½ × 12¼ in., neatly written
in double column of 46 lines to the column, Latin summaries in the
text, red: middle of the fifteenth century. Illustrated throughout with
well-painted miniatures, of which there were originally 108, including
pictures of the signs of the Zodiac and of the positions of the
principal stars. Of these miniatures nine are missing from the book,
but these have now been identified with the series of nine miniatures
in the possession of Mr. A. H. Frere, which are described on p. clxvi
of my Introduction. At the end of the text (f. 203) is written ‘And^w.
Fountaine, 1791. Æ. 20.’
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