Geoffrey Chaucer, Anonymous Seventeenth-century Latin Annotations to John Stowe's 1561 Workes of Chaucer (ca. 1600 - ca. 1700)

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Date
1600ca. 1700ca.
Author
Book title
The woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with diuers addicions, whiche were neuer in printe before. 1561.
Publication place
London
Printer
John Kyngston
Publisher
John Wight
Transcription source
Special Collections & University Archives, Standard University Library, KC1561 .C4 F CB.
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • annotation to text
  • Latin
  • Middle English
Summary
Latin quotations from Virgil and Seneca that annotate lines in Chaucer's Troilus
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: gloss
number: 8
sample: The swift fame, whiche that fals thinges
Fama malum qua non aliud velocius ullum Mobilitate viget etc.
STC
5075
Modern editions
Lerer, Seth. "Latin Annotations in a Copy of Stowe's Chaucer and the Seventeenth-century Reception of Troilus and Criseyde." The Review of English Studies 53.209 (2002): 1-7. view record