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A treatise on the astrolabe; addressed to his son Lowys by Geoffrey Chaucer. A.D. 1391. Ed. from the earliest mss. by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat ...

Title
A treatise on the astrolabe; addressed to his son Lowys by Geoffrey Chaucer. A.D. 1391. Ed. from the earliest mss. by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat ...
Author
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Publication
London, Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1872.

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  • Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912
  • Mā Shā' Allas, al-Miṡrī, active 9th century.
  • Māshāʾallāh, 730?-815?
Description
lxix, 119, [1] p. VII pl. (diagrs.); 22 cm.
Series Statement
Early English Text Society. Extra series. no. XVI
Uniform Title
Early English Text Society (Series). Extra series 16.
Subject
Astrolabes
Genre/Form
Treatises – England – 1872.
Note
  • Caption title: Tractatus de conclusionibus astrolabii. <Bred and mylk for children.>
  • Appended is "Astrolabium Messehalle" (p. 88-104) the Latin treatise which was evidently one of the sources from which Chaucer drew largely. cf. Pref., p. xxiv.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
LCCN
^^^12017813^
OCLC
  • 27286343
  • SCSB-10788090
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library