Poema quod dicitur Vox clamantis : necnon Chronica tripartita

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  Vox clamantis and other Latin poems : [manuscript]

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  ff. 4-183v. [John Gower] Vox clamantis. Incipit: Scripture veteris capiunt exempla futuri. Explicit: Que meruit fata sunt sibi fine data. Explicit libellus qui intitulatur Vox clamantis. Rubric: Incipit Cronica que Vox clamantis dicitur, In huius opusculi principio intendit compositor describere. English. G. C. Macaulay, ed., The Complete Works of John Gower (Oxford 1902)"Latin Works" 4:3-313; this manuscript described on pp. lxv-lxvi where it is said to be related to London, Brit. Lib., Cotton Tiberius A.iv in text and spelling; see also J. H. Fisher, John Gower, Moral Philosopher and Friend of Chaucer (New York 1964) 101-02, where HM 150 is placed in the C Version, and dated on the basis of textual evidence between ca. 1392 and 1399. The first leaves, ff. 1-3v, blank except for modern title and verses, s. XV, on f. 1:" Si decies quinque cum quinque velis numerare/ ysak adde caput caput et ter nominum [?] illud" (a political prophecy? See Ward, Cat. of Romances, 1:311). On ff. 4-13v are the chapter list, the quatrain ("Ad mundum mitto mea iacula dumque sagitto. . ."), and the picture of Gower shooting at the world; the text itself begins on f. 14. The bifolium, ff. 119-120, is bound in reverse order. ff. 184-188v. [John Gower] Carmen super multiplici Viciorum Pestilencia. Incipit: Quod patet ad limen instanti tempore crimen. Explicit: Pax manet absque dolo longaque vita datur. Explicit. Rubric: Contra demonis astuciam in causa lollardie. Latin. Macaulay, here skipping some verses with respect to the printed text: 346-48; 348-50; 352-54; 350-52. ff. 188v-190v. [John Gower] De lucis scrutinio. Incipit: Heu quia per crebras humus est viciata tenebras. Explicit: Lucis solamen det sibi christus Amen. Explicit tractatus de lucis scrutineo. Rubric: Incipit tractatus de lucis scrutinio quam a diu viciorum tenebre prothdolor suffocarunt. Latin. Macaulay, 355-57. ff. 190v-192v; ff. 193-194v blank. [John Gower] O deus immense. Incipit: Cultor in ecclesia qui deficiente sophia. Explicit: Aufert hoc nemo quod dabis ipse deo. Explicit. Rubric: Incipit carmen quod Iohannes Gower tempore regis Ricardi secundi dum vixit ultimo composuit, O Deus inmense sub quo dominantur in ense. Latin. Macaulay, here skipping some verses with respect to the printed text: 362-64; 368; 367; 368.

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