Anonymous, Annotations to William Thynne's 1532 Edition of Chaucer's Works (ca. 1568 - ca. 1597)

Full Text
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Date
1568ca. 1597ca.
Author
Lexicon title
[no title]
Book title
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before: as in table more plainly dothe appere
Publication place
London
Printer
Thomas Godfray
Transcription source
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, callnumber: BEIN Osborn fpa 5. Fragmentary. Acquired in 2001.
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • annotation to text
  • Middle English
Summary
Annotations, for a reader, written in mid-Tudor secretary. The Beinecke catalogue notes "Pen trials by Lyttys Spyvlie, William Evans, Rychard Wellys, Ffrauncis Wellys, Roger Asham and unidentified others. Inscribed: To my beloved Jone William[s] Mason." There are digitized illustrations of six pages (76v, 82v, 86v, 219v), and two pages at the end of the third of Troilus.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Annotations rather than glosses.
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 1100
sample: Solomon /
of a thousand men found I one good
but of all women found I never one
[bottom of 56v, annotating a reference to Solomon in Chaucer's "Tale of Melibee"]
STC
5068
Criticisms
Harbus, Antonina. "A Renaissance Reader\'s English Annotations to Thynne\'s 1532 Edition of Chaucer\'s Works." The Review of English Studies 59.240 (2008): 342-55. view record
ESTC
S106664