Images Courtesy of JGS

A note to students: You are welcome to use images posted on this site for non-profit, educational purposes (Fair Use). Many of the images have been provided courtesy of JGS members and other Gower scholars. Please email JGS for permission to use images posted on this site for other purposes, and familiarize yourself with proper citation format for online materials.

• John Gower's Tomb

Other sites with Gower Images

A note to students: Libraries usually own the copyright to images and individual web site authors may own the rights to images on their site. While Fair Use allows for the use of most images for educational (non-profit) purposes, it is always a good idea to contact the library or web site that is posting the image to receive permission to use that image in other venues. JGS does not maintain or own the images on the following publicly accessible sites.

Libraries with Digitized Gower Manuscript (MS) Images

These libraries have digitized and made available online full pages (folios), miniatures, initials, or other images from Gower manuscripts. The following link directly to a closeup of the image/miniature (if available). The manuscript link may include full page images as well.

The British Library, London, England

• Egerton 1991
  • f. 7v -Miniature of the Lover's Confession, of the Lover kneeling before the priest Genus.
• Harley 3869
  • f. 5 - Dream of Nebuchadnezzar
  • f. 18 - Amans kneeling before Confessor at the beginning of Book 1 of the Confessio Amantis
• Royal C.xxii
  • f.1 - Lover's Confession in Prologue

The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY

• M.125
  • f. 3v - Amans confessing to Genius
• M 126 - this MS contains over forty images including:
  • Amans confessing to Genius (f. 3v)
  • Dream of Nebuchadnezzar (f. 4v)
  • Amans meeting King and Queen of Love (f. 8v)
  • Amans confessing to Genius (f. 9r)
  • Trojan Horse entering Troy (f. 14v)
  • Three Questions (f. 26v)
  • Constance of Rome travelling/exile (f. 32v)
  • Nessus the Centaur taking Deianira from Hercules (f. 42r)
  • Treachery of Pope Boniface VIII (f. 46r)
  • Xanthippe pouring Water over Socrates (f. 54v)
  • Death of Pyramus and Thisbe (f. 58v)
  • Alexander the Great with Pirate (f. 65r)
  • Dido committing Suicide (f. 68r)
  • Penelope writing to Ulysses (f. 68v)
  • Vulcan capturing Mars and Venus (f. 93r)
  • Medea murdering sons (f. 108r)
  • Theseus and the Minotaur (f. 120r)
  • Tereus cutting out Tongue of Philomela & Procne deceiving Tereus (f. 122r)

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

• LUNA - Medieval and Renaissance MSS in collaboration with ARTstor
• Bodl. 294
  • Nebuchadnezzar's dream (f. 4v)
  • Lover and Confessor (f. 9r)
• Bodl. 693
  • Coat of Arms (f. 1r)
  • Nebuchadnezzar's dream (f. 4v)
  • Lover and Confessor (f. 8v)
• Bodl. 902
  • Lover kneeling before Confessor (f. 8r)
• Fairfax 3
  • Nebuchadnezzar's dream (f. 2r)
  • Lover and Confessor (f. 8r)
• Laud Misc. 609
  • Nebuchadnezzar's dream (f. 5r)
  • Lover and Confessor (f. 10r)
• Laud Misc. 719
  • Archer (f. 21r)
• Lyell 31

Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, NY (via Digital Scriptorium)

• Plimpton MS 265
  • Nebuchadnezzar's dream (f. 1v)

Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (via Digital Scriptorium)

• El 26 A 17
  • Nebuchadnezzar's dream (f. 1)
• HM 150
  • Vox Clamantis
  • Archer (f. 13v)

Personal / Scholar Web Sites with Gower Images

• Siân Echard, University of British Columbia
  http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/GOWER.HTM
  
• Jonathan H. Hsy, Doctoral candidate, University of Pennsylvania
  http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jhsy/gower.html#images