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[Confessio amantis]
1400-1425
Gower's poem using the confression of an ageing lover to a chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems.
Collection
Part of
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
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Metadata
- Publisher
- [England], [between 1400 and 1425]
- People
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- Author
- Gower, John, 1325?-1408
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 136
- Language
- Middle English
- Subject
- Christian poetry, English (Middle)
- Love poetry, English (Middle)
- Christian ethics—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Courtly love—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)—England
- Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton
- decorated initials
- illuminated manuscripts
- Poetry
- Parchment (Paper)
- Blind tooled bindings
- Gold tooled bindings
- Gilt edges
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