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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: i.495–6; Seymour 1 p. 113; Eisner pp. 60–1.
[1]
f. 1
Lyte lowys my sone i perceyue wel by certeyn euydencys þyn abilite to lerne sciencys touchyng nombrys and proporcions and as wel considere i þi busynesse in special to lerne þe tretys of þe astrolabe þenne for as moche as þe philosophre seiþ he wrappiþ him in his frend þat condescendiþ to þe riʒtful prayer of his frend …
f. 63v
… þe space bitwixe ys 2 prickes and þat is þe 12 part of þe altitude of þe tour and so of all oþer etcetera.
‘Astrolabia’ (f. 1); ‘Explicit tractatus astrolabiri’ (f. 63v). Geoffrey Chaucer, A Treatise on the Astrolabe. No MS ascription to Chaucer. IPMEP 438.
Other texts: See Dd.3.53 [1].
s. xv.
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