Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 191
tury, in the British Museum (MS. Burney, No. 275), containingsome of the principal scientific treatises of Priscian, Boethius, Euclid, andPtolemy. It is full of handsome and interesting illuminated initials. Theone we now give, represents a party of musicians. One is playing on bells,which appear… … fi.Shaw. GEOFFREY CHAUCER. AN Chaucer, as he is termed by some of our olderwriters, is the popular representative of the earlierperiod of English poetry; indeed he may beconsidered The Poet, par excellence, of the EnglishMiddle Ages. In spite of the antiquated charac-ter of his language, the…
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