• essio amantis / John Gower
  • Confessio amantis / John Gower

Extent:
  • 1 volume (ii, 191, ii leaves) : parchment ; 24 cm
Date:
  • 1400-1425
Language:
Author:
  • Gower, John, 1325?-1408
Description:
  • Title from printed catalog.
  • Script: Anglicana formata.
  • Decoration: The prologue and books 1-8 open with a 2- to 6-line blue initial with red penwork: fols. 1r, 7v, 55v, 70r, 87v, 130r, 141v, 172r. Divisions within books marked with similar 1- to 2-line initials.
Binding note:
  • England, early 19th century. Diced Russia leather of tan color over pasteboard, rebacked.
Provenance:
  • Garrett MS. 136 is of unknown early provenance. Various unidentified dealer's markings appear on fols. i verso and ii recto. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript from the London antiquarian bookseller Bernard Quaritch on 1 October 1905. His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 136
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 313-315.
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