How would you describe the overall appearance of the clerk from a physical/spiritual point of view? What job duties would he have performed?

Chaucer's clerk, also called "the Oxforc cleric," is an older man who is wearing thin, raggedy clothes. His horse is very thin, and the clerk reads all of the time. He has never held a job, and he is constantly trying to find the secret of making gold so that he can be rich without having to work. He doesn't talk much, but he is respected when he does. He is very educated, but not very smart.

See the link below for an artist's interpretation of how the cleric may have looked. The most famous print version of The Canterbury Tales is the Ellesmere Manuscript, which contains many woodcut illustrations.