Geoffrey Chaucer and Other Contributors to the Treatise on the Astrolabe

Author / Editor
Laird, Edgar (S.)

Title
Geoffrey Chaucer and Other Contributors to the Treatise on the Astrolabe

Published
Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline, eds. Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 145-65.

Description
The status of Astr as an unfinished scientific treatise encouraged its manuscript compilators to finish or add to it in a number of ways: responding to the descriptive prologue included by Chaucer, adding to or reordering its materials, and placing it in various kinds of assemblage.

Alternative Title
Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602.

Chaucer Subjects
Treatise on the Astrolabe.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.