Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury TalesChaucer, Geoffrey
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Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales
Chaucer, Geoffrey
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
§ 5, l. 3. by 2 and 2 ACG; by 3 and 3 P; _left blank in_ B. Either reading
makes sense, but it is clear that divisions representing three degrees each
must have been very awkward.
10. of _supplied from_ CPGM: AB _omit_.
§ 6, l. 5. est C; west A (_which is absurd_); west (_corrected to_ est) B.
9. signe CGP; signes ABM.
§ 10, l. 3. than B; þan C; A _has_ & by nyht, _which is absurd_.
4, 5. A _omits_ day with the howr inequal of the, _which is supplied from_
BCP; _the number_ 30 _is also supplied from_ BCM, _as_ A _has a blank space
here_; see l. 10.
§ 11, l. 12. _The number_ 4 _is from_ CP; AB _omit; old edd._ fourthe.
13. ther _supplied from_ PM; þere C; AB _omit_.
§ 12, l. 1. the _supplied from_ BC; A _omits_.
8. _The figure_ 2 _is from_ BCP; G _has_ secunde; A _omits_.
§ 14, l. 9, 10. The last clause supplied from B.
§ 15, l. 6. pointe] point P; pointes A; pointz B; poy_n_tes C; _but grammar
requires the singular_.
9. the _supplied from_ CP; AB _omit_.
§ 16, l. 5. AB _wrongly insert_ the _before_ Cancer; CP _omit it_.
8. y-lyke] Ilyke G; ilik P; y-like C; ilke AB; see l. 7.
§ 17. _Latin rubric_; for _latitudinem_ (as in M) read _longitudinem_. l.
18. heued B; hed ACP; see sect. 16, l. 3. The word 'the' (rightly placed in
BCMP) is, in A, wrongly placed before 'Aries' instead of before 'ende.'
23. _second_ the] þe C; AB _omit_.
§ 19. _Latin Rubric_; for _orizon_ (as in M) read _statio_.
§ 20. _Latin Rubric_; the MS. (M) transposes the words _in_ and _a_, having
_a zodiaco in circulo_, which contradicts the sense.
§ 22. _Latin Rubric_; for _centri_ (as in M) read _regionis_.
§ 23, l. 21. The figure '8' is omitted in AB.
23. than] A _omits_; thanne _inserted afterwards in_ B.
§ 25, l. 3. _first_ the] _supplied from_ B; AC _omit_.
15. CP _om._ and 10 minutes.
16. CP _om._ and minutes out. _For_ 51 degrees and 50 minutes, C _has_ 52,
þan is 52 degrees; _and_ P _has_ 52. Þenne is .52. grees.
19. CP _om._ as I mighte prove.
20. the _supplied from_ CP; AB _om._
27. the firste degree] 10 degrees C; 10 gree P.
28. 58 degrees and 10 minutes] almost 56 C (_meaning_ 56 degrees); almost
.56. grees P.
29. almost 20] almost 18 C.
31. thee] C _om._ and odde Minutes] CP _om._
It thus appears that there is a second set of readings, involving a
different calculation. The second set supposes the Sun to be in the 10th
degree of Leo, his altitude to be 56°, and his declination 18°; the
difference, viz. 38°, is the complement of the latitude. Either set of
readings suits the sense, but the one in the text agrees best with the
former latitude, viz. 51°. 50'.
37. _After_ there, C _inserts_ 38 grees, þat is; _and omits the words_ of
the pole, 51 degrees and 50 minutes. But this is a mere repetition of the
'height of the Equinoctial,' and is obviously wrong. _After_ pole, _in_ l.
38, A _inserts_ an that, _which is unmeaning, and omitted in_ B.
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