UNC-CH RBC Incunabula 532.5 – Details and Fragments
The volume includes a number of remarkable elements, marginalia, and fill materials. For a complete discussion of these elements, see Gastle, “A Caxton Confessio: Readers and Users from Westminster to Chapel Hill.”
These elements include:
- A papal indulgence printed by Caxton and used as filler in the binding
- A pair of figures scored into other filer material
- Signatures
- An unique fragment of the poem “The Nutbrown Maid”
- Various other marginalia, including a sixteenth-century Spanish notation
Indulg01a
Caxton Printed Indulgence
Filler001
Figures scored in fragments
Filler002
Detail of scored figure
Filler003
Detail of scored figure
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006r: Notation: “John a kynaston wrote this to you sweet hart & cossen ywis”
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Opening fragment of “The Nutbrown Maid”
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Spanish marginalia: “En la villa de Vermeo, cabeça / de Bisscaya, a qua días dell mes”
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“This ys my boke . . .”
William Caxton’s Edition of John Gower's Confessio Amantis
Rare Book Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Incunabula 532.5
Acknowledgement
The John Gower Society is extremely grateful to the Rare Book Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, for permission to host these images, and for their support and assistance in allowing access to the volume to acquire these images. - Brian W. Gastle, Western Carolina University