3 - Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 307

Summary

Confessio Amantis, with Latin addenda.

s.xv, c. 1420–30.

Contents

1

(fols 1ra–197ra) Confessio Amantis, Prol. 1 to VIII.3114*end

Torpor hebes sensus scola… (6 lines of Latin verse)

Of hem þat writen vs to fore < > Oure Ioie may ben endelees Amen Explicit

Prologue (fol. 1ra); Book I (fol. 7vb); Book II (fol. 28rb); Book III (fol. 49rb); Book IV (explicit and incipit on 65va, plus two lines Latin in rubric, rest starts top 65vb); Book V (fol. 87va); Book VI (fol. 132rb); Book VII (fol. 146ra); Book VIII (fol. 178vb). The outer edge of folios 1rb and 1va has been torn off from the leaf, with loss of text from some of the ends of lines in 1rb and beginnings of lines of 1va. The ends of lines on 1rb that are lost begin in the middle of the gloss beside 34* in Macaulay’s edition with ‘labores’ (this MS writes glosses in the text column), followed by ends of lines 35*–55*, 57*–58*, 60*–61*, 63*–65*, 69*, and on 1va the beginnings of all lines of the column, beginning 76*, are lost except for lines at the bottom of the column, Prol. 151–54.

Text: not seen by Macaulay, but belongs, according to Fisher, Gower: Moral Philosopher, 305, to his recension Ic (with the six-line ‘Explicit’).

For further information about the following Latin and French addenda that Gower caused to be added to MSS of the Confessio, see Appendix III.

2

(fol. 197ra) ‘Explicit iste liber’ (in red, also the next two items)

Explicit iste liber < > sub eo requiesce futurus

Six-line version, with dedication to the earl of Derby.

Edited from other MSS, like the next two items, by Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.478.

3

(fol. 197ra) ‘Quam cinxere freta’

Quam cinxere freta < > stat sine meta

With rubric ‘Epistola super huius’

Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.479.

4

(fol. 197ra–rb) ‘Quia vnusquisque’

Quia unusquisque < > specialiter intitulatur

Earlier version, favourable to Richard II.

Macaulay (ed.), Works, III.479–80.