A Treatise on the Astrolabe
- Author / Editor
- Eisner, Sigmund, ed.
A Treatise on the Astrolabe
- Published
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 358 pp : 68 b&w figs.; 1 color plate.
- Series
- Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 6, "The Prose Treatises," pt. 1.
- Description
- Edition of Astr based on Bodley 619 and Digby 72, Bodleian Library, Oxford, with collated variants from all known manuscripts and scholarly editions through The Riverside Chaucer. Contains explanatory notes and critical notes variorum through 1997. The introduction explains the uses and operation of astrolabes; surveys the critical reception of the work (authorship, dedication to son Lewis, date, sources, style, Chaucer as pedagogue, Chaucer and astrology, and relation to Equat); and describes thirty-two manuscripts, fifteen printed editions, and their relations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Treatise on the Astrolabe.
- Equatorie of the Planetis.