Online Gower Manuscripts

Gower Manuscripts Hosted by the John Gower Society

  • Additional 59495 (aka the Trentham Manuscript)
    In Praise of Peace and the Cinkante Balades.
  • Wilson Library Rare Book Collection, UNC Chapel Hill

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 cinxere,” “Traitie,” “Carmen de variis in amore passionibus,” and “Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.”
  • British Library
    • Additional 59495 (aka the Trentham Manuscript)
      In Praise of Peace and the Cinkante Balades. Hosted by the John Gower Society.
    • Harley MS 3869
      Confessio Amantis, Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, pageant verses, and some short Latin verse; Marian hymns in English and Latin.
    • Harley MS 7333
      Complete MS digitized but only contains excerpts from the Confessio
  • Cambridge, Trinity College
  • Lambeth Place Library
    • Register of Thomas Arundel
      Gower’s Will (256r and 256v)
  • Morgan Library and Museum
    • MS M.126
      Confessio Amantis (83 illuminations digitized)
  • Oxford, Bodleian Library
    • MS. Ashmole 35 
      Confessio Amantis
    •  MS. Fairfax 3
      Confessio Amantis, ‘Explicit iste liber’, Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, Carmen de variis in amore passionibus, Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia, ‘Quia unusquisque’.
  • Princeton University
  • Wilson Library Rare Book Collection, UNC Chapel Hill
    • Incunabula 532.5
      Caxton edition of the Confessio Amantis. Hosted by the John Gower Society.

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