"A Good Reder": the middle English Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, instruction, publics, and manuscripts

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2006-04
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Griffin, Carrie
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University College Cork
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The present work is a study of the Middle English prose text known as The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, a consideration of its transmission and reception history, and a survey of its manuscript witnesses; it also incorporates an edition of the text from two of its manuscripts. The text is a cosmological treatise of approximately five thousand words, written for the most part in English, with astronomical and astrological terms in Latin, though the English translation is frequently given. It is written anonymously, and survives in thirty-three manuscripts.
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Middle English literature , The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy
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Griffin, C. 2006. "A Good Reder": the middle English Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, instruction, publics, and manuscripts. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.