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Vol. 47 The Middle English ‘Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy’

Purchase this volume A Parallel-Text Edition. Edited from London, British Library, MS Sloane 2453 with a Parallel Text from New York, Columbia University, MS Plimpton 260 Carrie Griffin (ed.)  The ‘Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy’, surviving in thirty-four manuscripts ranging in date from c. 1380 to c. 1600, was one of the most widely-copied, consistently read, and arguably influential… Read More »Vol. 47 The Middle English ‘Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy’