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.”
- Osborn MS Fa1
- Bodleian Library
- MS Ashmole 35
Confessio Amantis
- MS Ashmole 35
- 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
- Additional 59495 (aka the Trentham Manuscript)
- Wilson Library Rare Book Collection, UNC Chapel Hill
- Incunabula 532.5
Caxton edition of the Confessio Amantis. Hosted by the John Gower Society.
- Incunabula 532.5
Individual or Select Images from Digitized Manuscripts of Gower’s Works
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
- Takamiya MS 98.
a leaf taken from the Stafford Gower (Huntington Library MS EL 26 A 17) and used as binding waste.
- Takamiya MS 98.
- Bodleian Library
- Bodl. 294
4 images from the Confessio Amantis - Bodl. 902
7 images from Confessio Amantis - Fairfax 3
3 images from Confessio Amantis - Laud Misc. 609
6 images from the Confessio Amantis - Laud Misc. 719
Image of archer - Lyell 31
1 image from Confessio Amantis
- Bodl. 294
- British Library
- Egerton MS 1991
4 images from the Confessio Amantis - Harley MS 3490
5 images from the Confessio Amantis
- Harley MS 6291
1 image from the Confessio Amantis - Harley 7184
5 images from the Confessio - Royal MS 18 C XXII.
5 images from the Confessio - Stowe MS 950
2 images from the
- Egerton MS 1991
- Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Plimpton MS 265
12 images from the Confessio via Digital Scriptorium
- Plimpton MS 265
- Huntington Library
- EL 26 A 17
7 images from the Confessio via the Digital Scriptorium - HM 150
5 images from the Vox Clamantis and other poems.
- EL 26 A 17
- University of Glasgow
- From the World of Chaucer Medieval Books and Manuscripts Exhibit
- MS Hunter 7 (S.1.7) – 4 images from the Confessio Amantis
- MS Hunter 59 (T.2.17) – 4 images from the Vox Clamantis
- From the World of Chaucer Medieval Books and Manuscripts Exhibit
Good General Collections of Digitized Medieval Manuscript Images
- Free Library of Philadelphia digital collection of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/feature/medieval/ - The Digital Walters
High-resolution archival images of entire manuscripts from the collection of the Walters Art Museum, along with detailed catalog descriptions. They are available for free under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.
http://thedigitalwalters.org/01_ACCESS_WALTERS_MANUSCRIPTS.html - Digital Scriptorium
An online repository of medieval manuscripts from a consortium of American universities.
https://digital-scriptorium.org/ - British Library Digitised Manuscripts
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/ - Digital Bodleian
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/