A treatise on the astrolabe

Description

Title: A treatise on the astrolabe
Creator: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Treatise on the astrolabe
Description: In Middle English.
Layout: single columns, mostly of 28 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork.
Presentation inscription on verso of front flyleaf: Augustus W. Franks, the gift of Sir David Dundas.
Ownership inscription on verso of front flyleaf: C. H. Read.
Tipped in: autograph letter signed from D. D. to A. W. Franks, 1877 February 11.
Binding: nineteenth-century full calf; in case.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Sir David Dundas. Formerly owned by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks. Formerly owned by Sir Charles Hercules Read. Formerly owned by Colin Franklin. Ex libris Boies Penrose and Boies Penrose II. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 31 l. : 158 x 108 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Subject (Topic): Astrolabes
English literature
English prose literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Astrolabes > Early works to 1800
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
English prose literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe, Takamiya MS 9.