The Ownership and Sale of Manuscripts of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Author/Editor
- Edwards, A. S. G.
- Title
- The Ownership and Sale of Manuscripts of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Published
- Edwards, A. S. G. "The Ownership and Sale of Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." The Library 23 (2022): 180-90.
- Review
- Per his title, Edwards tracks owners and records of sale for manuscripts of the CA, primarily from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but also citing, as earliest, documents of sale from 1413, and 1545 (180), and frequently following sales and owners into the twentieth century. The article, which clearly will stand as a cornerstone of investigation into these matters, is entirely names and dates, one after another, and hence impossible to summarize. Edwards is refreshingly content to present this information without theoretical speculation, taking its value qua information for granted. Notable are the footnotes, which in addition to broad-ranging and sometimes obscure--thus quite valuable--bibliography are several suggested additions to provenance of specific manuscripts as stated in Derek Pearsall and Linne R. Mooney, A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis (2021). [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society eJGN 41.2.]
- Date
- 2022
- Gower Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Confessio Amantis
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