Scholarship Related To John Gower And His Works
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Online Gower Manuscripts
Complete or Substantial Digitized Manuscripts and Early Books of Gower's Works Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Osborn MS Fa1 Third recension of the Confessio Amantis. Also contains "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam...
Publications of the John Gower Society
About the Series This series aims to provide a forum for critical studies of the poetry of John Gower and its influence on English and Continental literatures during the late Middle Ages and into the present day. Although its main focus is on the single poet,...
Dream of Nebuchadnezzar and Confession Miniatures in Gower’s Confessio Amantis
by Joyce Coleman The following chart and accompanying excel file reflects a compilation of known Dream of Nebuchadnezzar and Confession miniatures in extant copies of Gower's Confessio Amantis. For a fuller discussion of these miniatures, and of illuminations in Gower...
UNC-CH RBC Incunabula 532.5: A Caxton Confessio
UNC-CH Catalogue Entry: Published: Westminster, William Caxton, 2 Sept. 1493 [i.e. 1483] Description: [9], 2-ccxi [i.e. ccxiii], [1] l.; leaves [1], [8], [9] and last leaf are blank. fo. 30 cm. Notes: Capital spaces, guide-letters. Gift of the Hanes Foundation, 1960....
MS Add 59495: The Trentham Manuscript
British Library MS Additional 59495, known to early editors and modern Gower scholars alike as the Trentham Manuscript, is extraordinarily important to the study of Gower, given both its provenance and its contents. The manuscript consists exclusively of Gower's...
John Gower’s Transformation of the Tale of Constance from Nicholas Trevet’s Of the Noble Lady Constance
Edited by Peter G. Beidler, Lehigh University Download PDF of the Project Introduction: Peter G. Beidler My dozen students and I are pleased to offer this web publication of a comparison of John Gower’s Tale of Constance in the Confessio Amantis (written in the early...
A Listing of the Rhymes in Gower’s Confessio Amantis
by Gyöngyi Werthmüller The following is a computer-generated listing of all the rhymes in Gower's Confessio Amantis. Introduction and method The couplets* are listed as follows: Each line in this document contains one rhyme pair. The members of each pair are...