ABSTRACT
The first thing that should be said about the scholarship on Gower's Latin manuscripts is that the field is ripe for contribution. Work on these manuscripts has fallen into three broad categories: catalogues of the various manuscripts and the works they contain, technical investigation of the paleographical and codicological elements of each text, including patterns of scribal activity, and readings of the poems that open new interpretative frameworks by considering the material contexts of the manuscripts themselves. As one might expect, the majority of manuscript catalogues are found in editions of Gower's poems, and Macaulay's list in his edition of Gower's Latin works is the earliest useful compilation of the extant versions of the texts. A slightly more detailed description can be found in David Carlson's introduction to the recent edition and translation of Book I of the Vox and the Cronica Tripertita.
