Sidrak and Bokkus: An Early Modern Reader Response

Author / Editor
Grund, Peter.

Title
Sidrak and Bokkus: An Early Modern Reader Response

Published
Anglia 125 (2007): 217-38.

Description
Describes the unique copy of portions of "Sidrak and Bokkus" found in Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam, MS M199, an early modern alchemical miscellany. Accompanying the selections, manuscript annotations refer to a wide variety of texts, indicating early modern reading habits. The notes include two quotations from the third printing of Thynne's edition of Chaucer (c. 1550), two from MkT (on Lucifer and Cresus), and one from CYT (a reference to an "erthen pot").

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Monk and His Tale
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale