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
The following notes are in the hand of Lord Burleigh, as I am
informed by Mr. R. T. Gunton: ‘Vox Clamantis’ on the first page,
‘nomine Authoris’ and ‘Anno 4 Regis Ricardi’ in the margin of the
prologue to the first book, ‘Thomas arch., Simon arch.,’ opposite
i. 1055 f., ‘Amoris effectus’ near the beginning of Lib. v, ‘Laus
Edw. princ. patris Ricardi 2’ at Lib. vi. cap. xiii, and a few
more.
C₂. COTTON, TITUS, A, 13, British Museum. Contains on ff. 105-137 a
part of the _Vox Clamantis_, beginning with the Prologue of Lib. i. and
continuing to Lib. iii. l. 116, where it is left unfinished. Paper,
leaves measuring 8¼ x 6 in. written in a current sixteenth-century hand
with an irregular number of lines (about 38-70) to the page. Headed,
‘De populari tumultu et rebellione. Anno quarto Ricardi secundi.’
Text copied from D, as is shown by minute agreement in almost
every particular.
H₃. HATTON 92, Bodleian Library, Oxford. This contains, among other
things of a miscellaneous kind, Gower’s _Cronica Tripertita_, followed
by ‘[H.] aquile pullus,’ ‘O recolende,’ and ‘Rex celi deus,’
altogether occupying 21½ leaves of parchment, measuring 7¾ x 5½ in.
Neatly written in hands of the first half of the fifteenth century
about 28-30 lines to the page, the text in one hand and the margin in
another.
Begins, ‘Prologus. Opus humanum est--constituit.’
Then the seven lines, ‘Ista tripertita--vincit amor,’ followed by
‘Explicit prologus.’ After this,
‘Incipit cronica iohannis Gower de tempore Regis Ricardi secundi
vsque ad secundum annum Henrici quarti.
Incipit prohemium Cronice Iohannis Gower.
Postquam in quodam libello, qui vox clamantis dicitur, quem
Iohannes Gower nuper versificatum composuit super hoc quod
tempore Regis Ricardi secundi anno Regni sui quarto vulgaris in
anglia populus contra ipsum Regem quasi ex virga dei notabiliter
insurrexit manifestius tractatum existit, iam in hoc presenti
Cronica, que tripertita est, super quibusdam aliis infortuniis,’
&c.
Ends (after ‘sint tibi regna poli’), ‘Expliciunt carmina Iohannis
Gower, que scripta sunt vsque nunc, quod est in anno domini Regis
prenotati secundo, et quia confractus ego tam senectute quam
aliis infirmitatibus vlterius scribere discrete non sufficio,
Scribat qui veniet post me discrecior Alter, Amodo namque manus
et mea penna silent. Hoc tamen infine verborum queso meorum,
prospera quod statuat regna futura deus. Amen. Ihesus esto michi
ihesus.’
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