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Description John Gower world Vox Clamantis.jpg |
English:
John Gower in a portrait from a book with his
Vox Clamantis
and
Chronica Tripertita
in Glasgow Univ. Lib., MS Hunter 59 (T.2.17) folio 6v. This is from a revised edition of the book published c. 1400 (before Gower's death). Gower is depicted as an archer with a bow and arrow. Gower prepares to shoot the world, a sphere with compartments representing earth, air, and water. Stockton speculates that the lower half represents the peasantry; the upper quarters represent clergy and nobility.
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Text on the above image in one version of the
Vox Clamantis
reads "I hurl my darts at the world and I shoot my arrows; Yet where there is a just man, no arrow strikes. But I wound those transgressors who live evilly; Therefore, let him who is conscious of being in the wrong look to himself in that respect."
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Ref from:
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/chaucer/contemporaries.html
Latin text, transcription: Ad mundum mitto mea iacula dumque sagitto At vbi iustus erit nulla sagitta ferit Sed male viventes hos vulnero transgredientes Conscius ergo sibi se speculetur ibi Latin text, translation, d.lib.rochester.edu : I send my darts at the world and simultaneously shoot arrows; But mind you, wherever there is a just man, no one will receive arrows. I badly wound those living in transgression, however; Therefore, let the thoughtful man look out for himself. |
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Date |
circa 1400
date QS:P,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source | http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/images/chaucer/H59_0006v.jpg | |||
Author | Unknown author Unknown author | |||
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- ↑ a b Stockton, Eric William (1962) The Major Latin Works of John Gower , Seattle : University of Washington Press, pp. 503