Gower, Confessio amantis (Caxton): London, British Library, IB.55077
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Material: Paper
Size: 301 mm x 218 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
Collation:
- Without the blanks.
Condition:
Leaf [*]2 is mounted and ruled in red, and is slightly mutilated.
Rubrication and decorated initials:
- Number of hands: ?
- Summary:
Coming soon.
Hand decoration:
Coming soon.
Additions:
A few 16th-century marginal notes and pen-trials.
Binding Description:
Boudn by R. Montagu in gold-tooled brown russia.
Accompanying Material:
Two engraved portraits of Gower and a woodcut vignette of his tomb in Southwark Cathedral have been inserted on end-papers.
History:
- Provenance:
- Possibly Wyllyam Sheperde, 16th C
- Possibly W. Poyntz, 16th C
- Joseph Gulston, before 1783
- Thomas Payne, bookseller, 1783-84
- Revd C. M. Cracherode, 1784-99
- Acquisition: Bequeathed in 1799.
Image Gallery:
Works referred:
Administration Information:
Images are supplied by Lotte Hellinga and scanned by CB and JT (2014).
The information is taken from BMC XI with editor's kind permission.
Ed. by ST and TK (2014/15).