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| | New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Plimpton MS 265 | | Description: ff.i + 171 + i - Bound, s. XVI, in stamped leather with metal bosses. - Verney family; Henry Hart; Edward Bromley; Gatacre family of Claverley, Shropshire; Quaritch catalogue 344 (1924) n. 16; George A. Plimpton (1855-1936). - De Ricci, p. 1801. | | Number of Parts: 2 - Number of Images Available: 15 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/PlimptonMS265_20 | | Language: Latin English Country: England Century: 15th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1-171v | | Description: - Parchment - 390 x 260 mm | | Country: England | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: | | Assigned Date: s. XVin | Searchable Date Range: 1400 - 1415 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: | | Scribe(s): Scribe D of the Trinity College Gower | | Script: Anglicana formata | | Figurative Decoration: One miniature (Precious Metals). | | Other Decoration: | | Acknowledgments: - We thank Dr. K. L. Scott for the dating of this manuscript and Prof. Malcolm B. Parkes for the identification of the scribe. | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: ff. 1-171v | | Author: John Gower | | Title: Confessio Amantis | | Language(s): English | | Notes: Refoliated, June 1998 (correcting previous foliation that skipped numbers at the absence of leaves). | | Status of text: Defective. | 
| f. 1v
Miniature, the width of one column, of the dream of Nabuchodonosor (Precious Metals), with contemporary note adjacent to miniature.
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| f. 19
Later column heading acknowledges in both Latin and English the sin of taking joy in another's sorrow.
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| f. 106v
Later note in the upper left corner, "Maria virgo semper letare que meruisti christum portare, celi et terre conditorem."
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| | Part 2: f. i recto-verso | | Description: - Parchment - 390 x 260 mm - 2 columns of 45 lines. | | Country: England | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: | | Assigned Date: s. XV | Searchable Date Range: 1400 - 1499 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: ; | | Script: Formal gothic book hand. | | Music: Square notation on 4-line red staves. | | Other Decoration: 2-line blue initials with red flourishing. | | Notes: Formerly functioning as pastedowns; now lifted, as flyleaves. | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: f. i recto-verso; back f. i recto-verso | | Title:
Missal
| | Language(s): Latin | | Notes: Contains parts of the service for Holy Week: front, for Tuesday, gospel reading (Mark 14:39-15:36); back, for Maundy Thursday, end of communion prayer through final prayer with continuation of gospel (John 13:16-14:5, breaking defectively). | | Status of text: Fragment. | 
| f. i
Passion reading for Tuesday of Holy Week with the speakers marked as "c" (narrator), "s" (interlocutors), and a cross (Jesus).
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