The complete works of John Gower, volume 4 : $b The Latin worksGower, John
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The complete works of John Gower, volume 4 : $b The Latin works
Gower, John
Poetry
In addition there are some marginal notes which are not quite
contemporary, as those on ff. 51 v^o, 52, 76 v^o, 77 (‘Contra
rectores Oxon.’ &c., ‘Nota de muliere bona’ &c.), and the heading
of the last piece on f. 137 seems to have been rewritten over a
hand different from any of the above, of which some words remain.
A few corrections are in doubtful hands, as vi. 1208.
Of the above hands the first, very regularly written in a
fourteenth century character, in brown ink, probably the same as
that of the _Vox Clamantis_ in G, and the same scribe apparently
wrote the lines which are supplied sometimes in the margin of
H, having been dropped out of the text by the first copyist.
The second (2) is also a very neat and regular hand, but of a
somewhat later type. It appears in the French and Latin poems
of MS. Fairfax 3, as well as in the substituted leaf at the
beginning of the _Confessio Amantis_ in that manuscript. It is
also used for the _Cronica Tripertita_, _Traitié_ and other
pieces in the Glasgow MS. (G), for the _Cron. Tripertita_ and
other Latin pieces in H, and for some of the rewritten passages
of the _Vox Clamantis_ in G, H, and C. The third (3) is a rather
rough hand, found also occasionally in corrections of G and H.
The fourth (4) is that in which the same marginal note is written
also in C, H and G.
G. GLASGOW HUNTERIAN MUSEUM T. 2, 17. Contains, ff. 1-108, _Vox
Clamantis_ preceded by the Table of Chapters, ff. 109-119, _Cronica
Tripertita_, ff. 119, 120, ‘H. aquile pullus,’ ‘O recolende,’ ‘Quia
vnusquisque,’ ‘Eneidos Bucolis,’ ff. 120 v^o-122, _Carmen super
multiplici Viciorum Pestilencia_, ff. 123, 124, _Tractatus de Lucis
Scrutinio_, f. 124 v^o, _Traitié pour ensampler les Amantz marietz_
followed by _Carmen de variis in amore passionibus_, f. 129, ‘Orantibus
pro anima,’ with shield of arms and the lines ‘Armigeri scutum,’
and below this a bier with candle at head and foot, f. 129 v^o,
‘Epistola quam Iohannes Gower in laudem ... Henrici quarti statim post
coronacionem ... deuote composuit,’ f. 130 v^o, ‘O deus immense,’ f.
131 v^o, ‘Henrici regis,’ ‘Vnanimes esse,’ f. 132, ‘Presul, ouile
regis,’ ‘Cultor in ecclesia,’ ‘Dicunt scripture,’ f. 132 v^o blank.
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