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This is a vintage Pottery jar
The hand-crafted studio pottery jar features a Chocolate Brown glaze with a beige glaze under the Lid,
CONDITION
In good condition with wear consistent with age and use.
MEASUREMENTS
Height 8 inch 20.3 cm
Diameter 6 inch 15.2 cm
Marked underneath "The Folger Library"
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The Writing on the Jar
Latin original
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint vina proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
English literal translation
My purpose is to die in a tavern,
so that wine might be close to my dying mouth.
Then a choir of angels will happily sing,
"May God be merciful toward this drinker."
English metrical translation
I am resolved to die in a tavern,
so wine will be close to my dying mouth.
Will sing gaily the angels' choir then:
"May God be merciful to this drunkard."
The Archpoet (c. 1130 – c. 1165), or Archipoeta (in Latin and German), is the name given to an anonymous 12th-century author of ten medieval Latin poems, the most famous being his "Confession" found in the Carmina Burana manuscript (under CB 191).
Along with Hugh Primas of Orléans (with whom he has sometimes been confused), he is cited as the best exemplar of Goliardic poetry and one of the stellar poets of the Latin Middle Ages.
For More Info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archpoet