A Fragment of Nicholas of Lyra's Commentary on 1 Corinthians 5, 6, and 7 in the Fairfax Manuscript of Gower's "Confessio Amantis."
- Author/Editor
- Kuczynski, Michael P.
- Title
- A Fragment of Nicholas of Lyra's Commentary on 1 Corinthians 5, 6, and 7 in the Fairfax Manuscript of Gower's "Confessio Amantis."
- Published
- Kuczynski, Michael P. "A Fragment of Nicholas of Lyra's Commentary on 1 Corinthians 5, 6, and 7 in the Fairfax Manuscript of Gower's Confessio Amantis." Journal of the Early Book Society 27 (2024): 179-87.
- Review
- Probably no one who's looked at Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 3 hasn't wondered about the two pages sewn to the paper end-leaves, one of them wrong-ended. Kuczynski identifies these as pages taken from a 14th- or 15th-century manuscript of Nicholas of Lyra's commentary on 1 Corinthians 5, 6, and 7. Kuczynski doesn't speculate about who might have been responsible for attaching them to MS Fairfax 3, or when, beyond noting that "an attentive reader might have noticed the appropriateness of preserving this copy of the 'Confessio' and reinforcing its moral import by adding, at its back, a leaf from an exegesis of St. Paul's warnings about fornication" (185). To drive home the point, Kuczynski examines CA Bk. V, ll. 65-83, devoted to Avarice, with its connections to idolatry and fornication, noting that "Gower is unique among Middle English writers in linking avarice, idolatry, and fornication" (185). [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 44.2]
- Date
- 2024
- Gower Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Confessio Amantis