MS. Arch. Selden. B. 11
Summary Catalogue no.: 3357
Contents
Confessio Amantis
, The first recension of the Confessio Amantis
At the end are the pieces beginning 'Quam cinxere' and 'Quia vnusquisque'
Language(s): Middle English and Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Mixed paper and parchment (fols 6 and 9 a parchment bifolium near centre of first quire but with a paper bifolium between) but thereafter only paper (Late Medieval English Scribes)
Extent: i x 170 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 15 × 11.25 in.
Layout
2 cols
Decoration
Illuminated capitals
History
Provenance and Acquisition
On the front pastedown, 'Ed-us Smythe gen' hunc librum possidit' and 'ffor master doctor Martyne at ys'; owned by Edwarde Smythe and 'Edmundus Smyth generosus', 16th century (cf. Late Medieval English Scribes)
Acquired by the Bodleian in 1659
Record Sources
Description adapted (September 2023) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1922)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
Derek Pearsall and Linne R. Mooney, A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2021), no. 22 (pp. 163-7)
Online resources:
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2023-09-06: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)