Latin Verses by John Gower and "John of Bridlington" in a "Piers Plowman" Manuscript (BL Add. 35287).
- Author/Editor
- Warner, Lawrence.
- Title
- Latin Verses by John Gower and "John of Bridlington" in a "Piers Plowman" Manuscript (BL Add. 35287).
- Published
- Warner, Lawrence. "Latin Verses by John Gower and 'John of Bridlington' in a Piers Plowman Manuscript (BL Add. 35287)." Notes and Queries 55.2 (2008): 127-31.
- Review
- The verses--"Tristia post leta. post tristia sepe quieta," "Explicit iste liber qui obsecro transeat liber"--are, respectively, the first line of Book III of the "Cronica Tripertita" and the first line of the final envoy of the "Confessio Amantis" (with "obsecro" and "transeat" in reversed positions). Both are by different hands datable after the fourteenth century, and thus Warner sees them as indications of the "afterlives" of Gower's poems. In the case of the former, this is especially significant, since "BL 35287 contains only the second known medieval reference to the 'Cronica Tripertita'" [130], the other being in a copy of "Hardyng's Chronicle," BL MS Lansdowne 204, fols 196v and 204r. [RFY. Copyright. The John Gower Society. eJGN 41.1] (But see Eric Weiskott "John Gower and 'John of Bridlington': An Unnoticed Borrowing." Notes and Queries 68.2 (2021): 160-62).
- Date
- 2008
- Gower Subjects
- Influence and Later Allusion
Cronica Tripertita