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Meanwhile Francis Thynne, whose father William Thynne had published a 1532 edition of Chaucer, was preparing notes for a commentary on the poet's works. On the publication of Speght's edition, Thynne abandoned his project and criticised Speght's performance in a long manuscript letter of Animadversions addressed to Speght and dedicated to Sir Thomas Egerton.
Plain-text format (with line numbering): Part 1 Part 2 from eChaucer; The text of A Treatise on the Astrolabe – presented in Middle English and Modern English side-by-side. A Treatise on the Astrolabe – a verb database (language analysis, description of the astrolabe and Middle English period)
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈ tʃ ɔː s ər / CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. [1] He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". [2]
Skeat is best known for his work in Middle English, and for his standard editions of Chaucer and William Langland's Piers Plowman. [7] Skeat was the founder and only president of the English Dialect Society from 1873 to 1896. [8] The society's purpose was to collect materials for the publication of The English Dialect Dictionary. The society ...
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The text mentions that the year 1392 is the "Radix" (or "root") of Chaucer; The main hand (including that of the "Radix" note) resembled, Price thought, a document likely written in Chaucer's hand; Linguistic similarities between the Equatorie and Chaucer's work, including "verbal echoes of the Astrolabe ;
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Chaucer worked, in part, from a translation of the Consolation into French by Jean de Meun but is clear he also worked from a Latin version, correcting some of the liberties de Meun takes with the text. The Latin source was probably a corrupt version of Boethius' original, which explains some of Chaucer's own misinterpretations of the work.