Sidrak and Bokkus: An Early Modern Reader Response
- Author / Editor
- Grund, Peter.
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