The Kalendarium of John Somer
- Author / Editor
- Mooney, Linne R., ed. and trans.
The Kalendarium of John Somer
- Published
- Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.
- Physical Description
- xii, 224 pp.
- Series
- The Chaucer Library.
- Description
- Referred to by Chaucer in Astr, Somer's "Kalendarium" may have been a source for a number of the poet's astrological references. This facing-page edition and English translation of the Latin "Kalendarium" includes descriptions of the manuscripts; discussion of Somer's works, biography, and influence; and appendices of Middle English versions of the "Canon" (part of the "Kalendarium"), Somer's star catalog, and descriptions of other scientific works attributed to Somer.
- Elaborate layout emulates some of the complexities of text and graphics in the original.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Treatise on the Astrolabe.