Text name A Treatise on the Astrolabe File name cmastro.m3 Manuscript No copy text, see Benson, p. 1193, for list of mss. Date a1450 (c1391) Dialect East Midlands (London) Genre Handbook, astronomy Edition Benson, Larry D. 1987. The Riverside Chaucer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Third edition. Sample Pp. 662.C1.1-673.C2.7 Remarks Spelling is based on Bodley 619.
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