The Authorship of the "Equatorie of the Planetis"
- Author / Editor
- Rand Schmidt, Kari Anne.
The Authorship of the "Equatorie of the Planetis"
- Published
- Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993.
- Physical Description
- xii, 436 pp.; 8 b&w plates, 11 figures, 20 tables.
- Series
- Chaucer Studies, no. 19.
- Description
- Concludes that the case for Chaucer's authorship of Equat remains "not proven"; i.e., Equat "cannot be identified as Chaucer's work." This conclusion is built on examination of handwriting, dialect, and style, showing that Equat is a holograph in Chaucer's dialect but not demonstrably in his idiolect.
- Rand Schmidt surveys previous scholarship on the authorship question and applies several statistical standards to compare the style of Equat to that of Astr, Mel, and ParsT and other examples of contemporary astrological prose.
- Contains new manuscript descriptions, notes, and transcriptions of Equat (Peterhouse, Cambridge, MS 75.I, ff. 71v-78v, with facing-page facsimile); a previously unpublished Astr (Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.3.53, ff. lr-27r); "The Shippe of Venyse" (Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 9.5.26, ff. 115r-117v); and "The Newe Theorik of Planetis" (Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.5.26, ff. 118r-145v).
- Also contains a "key-word-in-context" concordance to Equat.
- Contributor
- Rand, Kari Anne Schmidt
- Chaucer Subjects
- Equatorie of the Planetis.
- Treatise on the Astrolabe.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.