Crowd Sourcing John Gower's 'Confessio amantis'

A British Academy Funded Project

03/04/2012
by Malte Urban
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Welcome

Welcome to ConfessioAmantis.org. This website is currently under construction, but information and data are constantly added and updated.

You can find more information about the project by clicking on ‘About‘ at the top of the page or by clicking here.

In order to post comments and create posts, you will need to log in to the site. You can either login with one of several social networking credentials or create a separate account for ConfessioAmantis.org. Your social network credentials are safe and not saved on this site. The log in and registration links can be found at the very bottom of the page or by clicking on ‘comments’ on any post on the site.


30/04/2012
by Malte Urban
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Transcription System Guide and Transcription Protocol now online

It has taken me longer than anticipated, and I’m sure that the Transcription Protocol is not complete, yet, but I’m hoping that it gets our transcriptions on their way.

You can find the Guide, which includes basic instructions on registering to become a transcriber, here, and the Transcription Protocol here. Both are also directly accessible as sub-pages of the Manuscript Transcriptions tab at the top of the page.

Further manuscript images (Bodleian Lyell 31) have been ordered, and I will be adding more images of Yale Beinecke Osborn MS fa.1 in due course.

For those who are going to add transcriptions, please add the line number at the beginning of each new line you transcribe. I will endeavour to add line ranges for each manuscript page in due course. Line references will mirror those from Russell Peck’s TEAMS edition, which, incidentally, is a great aid for transcribing the poem. You can access it here.

As always, be in touch about any suggestions etc by adding comments to the website, eMailing me or Tweeting @econfessio.

20/04/2012
by Malte Urban
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Manuscript Images Available

The section of the site where manuscript images are housed is now live. Either click on ‘Manuscript Transcriptions’ above or click HERE.

In due course, this section will be where transcriptions are produced, but I first need to draft a basic transcription protocol to get the process off to a consistent start.

Until that time, feel free to browse the images. More images of Beinecke Osborn fa.1 will follow, and images of Lyell 31 will be made available ASAP.