Gower's "Cronica Tripertita" and the Latin Glosses to Hardyng's "Chronicle."
- Author/Editor
- Moll, Richard J.
- Title
- Gower's "Cronica Tripertita" and the Latin Glosses to Hardyng's "Chronicle."
- Published
- Moll, Richard J. "Gower's Cronica Tripertita and the Latin Glosses to Hardyng's Chronicle." Journal of the Early Book Society 7 (2004): 153-58.
- Review
- Moll shows that in London, British Library MS Lansdowne 204, containing the first version of John Hardyng's "Chronicle" (ca. 1450), "three of the rubrics to the history of Richard II make direct reference to Gower's work, and two of the rubrics quote the text at length" (154). After quoting the passages borrowed from, or dependent on, Gower's CrT, Moll concludes: "We can, therefore, expand the influence of the 'Cronica Tripertita' beyond Gower's immediate London circle to not only Hardyng's rubricator but the northern chronicler himself. In its brief borrowings from Gower's 'Cronica,' the first version of Hardyng's 'Chronicle' not only mollifies the harsh image of Richard II, it also separates Gower's text from the 'Vox Clamantis.' Hardyng does not seem to have used the 'Vox,' and all of the lines that place the 'Cronica' in relation to the 'Vox' have been omitted, thus raising the possibility that Hardyng had access to the 'Cronica' on its own" (157). Hardyng's knowledge and use of the 'Cronica' indicates that "the text continued to circulate long after Gower's circle of friends and associates had died" (157). [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 42.2]
- Date
- 2004
- Gower Subjects
- Influence and Later Allusion
Croniica Tripertita
Vox Clamantis
Manuscripts and Textual Studies