Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the Works of John Gower
Derek Pearsall

Confessio Amantis - First Recension Manuscripts

1. Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 307 (Ic), s.xv first quarter (Ex QC Q; also Table of Contents)
2. Cambridge, St Catherine's College, MS 7 (Ib), s.xv med. (7 leaves lost) (Ex QC Q)
3. Cambridge, St John's College, MS B.12 (34) (Ia), s.xv first quarter (Ex QC Q)
4. Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.8.19 (Ie), S.xv med. (much omitted from Book V and all from VII.3684, not through loss of leaves)
5. Cambridge, University Library, MS Mm.2.21 (Ia), s.xv first quarter
6. Chicago, Newberry Library, Case MS 33.5 (Louis H. Silver Collection MS 3) (formerly Castle Howard, Earl of Carlisle) (Ic), s.xv ex. (22 leaves lost) (Ex QCQ)
7. Glasgow University Library, Hunterian MS 7 (S.1.7) (Ib), s.xv first quarter (24 leaves lost, text supplied on added leaves)
8. London, British Library, Additional MS 22139 (Ib), s.xv third quarter (34 leaves lost) (Ex QC Q). Added: four short poems by Chaucer
9. London, British Library, MS Egerton 913 (Ia), s.xv first quarter, fragmentary (Prologue and 1.1-1701 only)
10. London, British Library, MS Egerton 1991 (Ic), s.xv first quarter (Ex QC Q)
11. London, British Library, MS Harley 3490 (Ib), 1450-60. Also the Speculum religiosorum of St Edmund of Abingdon (separate quire, same hand)
12. London, British Library, MS Royal 18.C.xxii (Ic), s.xv first quarter (Ex QC Q)
13. London, British Library, MS Stowe 950 (Ib), s.xv first quarter (20 leaves lost)
14. London, College of Arms, MS Arundel 45 (LXV) (Ic), S.xv med. (15 leaves lost)
15. London, Society of Antiquaries, MS 134 (Ib), s.xv med. (7 leaves lost) (Ex QC Q). Also, in the same hand and integral with the MS, Lydgate's Life of Our Lady (acephalous), Hocdeve's Regiment of Princes, and John Walton's verse translation of Boethius (fragment)
16. Manchester, Chetham's Library, MS A.7.38 (A.6.11, wrongly, in Macaulay)(6696) (Ia), s.xvi second quarter. An abridged text, copied from the same exemplar as Princeton Garrett (No. 30, below) (Ex QC)
17. New York, Columbia University Library, Plimpton Collection MS 265 (Ic), s.xv flIst quarter
18. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M125 (formerly Marquess of Hastings, then Quaritch) (Ib), s.xv first quarter (lacks leaves) (Ex QC Q)
19. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M126 (Ib), s.xv third quarter. Not known to Macaulay, except for the Frere miniatures (IIclxvi), which Were reunited with the MS (purchased by Morgan in 1903) in 1926 (Ex QC Q; also an alphabetical index)
20. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS M690 (formerly Ravensworth Castle, Earl of Ravensworth, bought from Maggs in 1924) (Ic), s.xv first quarter
21. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Arch. Selden B.11 (SC 3357) (Ic), s.xv med. (Ex QCQ)
22. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 35 (SC 6916) (Ic), s.xv first quarter (10 leaves lost)
23. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 693 (SC 2875) (Ic), s.xv first quarter (Ex QCQ)
24. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 902 (SC 27573) (Ia), s.xv first quarter (Ex QC Q)
25. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud (Misc.) 609 (SC 754) (Ic), s.xv first quarter (10 leaves lost) (Ex QC Q)
26. Oxford, Christ Church, MS 148 (I), s.xv first quarter (Ex QC Q)
27. Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 67 (Ic), s.xv in. (Ex QC Q)
28. Oxford, New College, MS 326 (Ia), s.xv third quarter
29. Philadelphia, Rosenbach Foundation, MS 1083/29 (368) (formerly Earl of Aberdeen) (Ie), s.xv med.
30. Princeton University, Firestone Library, Garrett MS 136 (formerly Phillipps MS 2298) (la), s.xv first quarter. An abridged text, copied from the same exemplar as Chetham (No. 16, above) (Ex)
31. Private Collection (formerly Mount Stuart, Rothesay, Marquess of Bute, MS 1.17; Sotheby 13 June 1983, lot 10, sold to Kraus) (Ib), s.xv first quarter (18 leaves lost)