Physical description: On parchment. iv + 206 + iv leaves, 200 x 130 mm.
Contents: Mirror of life; folio 202b: Lay folk's mass book.
Decoration: Initials: 6-line (f.2) and 3-line, blue with red. Start of line capitals filled in yellow.
Binding: 18th century with Gower crest on spine and title Gower's Poems.
Provenance: 1500-1600: 16th century titles on f'.1 - The mirrour of lyfe, and Iohn Gower written by titles Vox clamantis, Speculum meditantis and Confessio amantis.
Provenance: 1746?-1800: Armorial bookplate of Gower Earl Gower.
Provenance 1920s-1920s: Quaritch (catalogue 328, item 577).
Provenance: 1945-1945: Sotheby's sale (Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth) 15 Oct. 1945, lot 2125.
Provenance 1946-1946: Purchased 1946: T. Thorp, catalogue 246, item 444 (but former MSS handlist records gift accession no. G19476).
Published citations and unpublished notes:
1968: former MSS handlist records attribution to Nassyngton from "Notes by Prof. J. D. Gordon who examined MS 31/5/1968 for an edition".
Microfilm copy available for consultation.
