The Yale Gower Manuscript, Beinecke Osborn MS fa.1: Paleographical, Codicological, Technological Challenges and Opportunities.
- Author/Editor
- Shailor, Barbara A.
- Title
- The Yale Gower Manuscript, Beinecke Osborn MS fa.1: Paleographical, Codicological, Technological Challenges and Opportunities.
- Published
- Shailor, Barbara A. "The Yale Gower Manuscript, Beinecke Osborn MS fa.1: Paleographical, Codicological, Technological Challenges and Opportunities." In John Gower in England and Iberia: Manuscripts, Influences, Reception. Ed. Ana Sáez-Hidalgo and R. F. Yeager. Publications of the John Gower Society X. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2014. Pp. 77-85.
- Review
- Shailor describes various types of damage to the Yale manuscript of "Confessio Amantis": for example, extensive damp and mildew, resulting probably from a fire in the 18th-c. library of a previous owner; and the loss of the codex's first and third quires. Drawing on a wide range of curatorial and academic authorities, she also discusses what can be known about the stability of the volume and its text despite this damage: for example, the likelihood that the mildew is not spreading, that the book's third quire was removed and sold at auction (its present whereabouts, however, unknown), and that the manuscript was copied and decorated c.1410-1420 in an identifiable London shop. She presents new readings of damaged text and new information about different pigments used for rubrication and decoration, based on the technology of hyperspectral imaging, which allows for "a much broader spectrum of color definition and recognition, going from ultraviolet to infrared" (82). [MPK. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 42.2]
- Date
- 2014
- Gower Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Confessio Amantis