'I n'am but a lewd compilator': Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe' as Translation

Author / Editor
Lipson, Carol [S.]

Title
'I n'am but a lewd compilator': Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe' as Translation

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 84 (1983): 192-200.

Description
No more than a fraction of Astr is translated; the largest part is Chaucer's own "practical prose." In the "translated" sections Chaucer expanded his source by a factor of eight; thus his version is hardly a "translation."

Chaucer Subjects
Treatise on the Astrolabe.