Excerpt from Lydgate and Burgh's Secrees of Old Philisoffres: A Version of the Secreta Secretorum I have endeavoured in the following pages to give some account of the Secreta Secretaram and its history, to summarise what is known of the authors of this translation, and, though relieved of much of the work which would otherwise have fallen upon me by the work of another editor in this series (dr. Schick), to add some remarks on the language and peculiaiities of the poem. The text printed is that of Sloane 2464. It is the ...
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Excerpt from Lydgate and Burgh's Secrees of Old Philisoffres: A Version of the Secreta Secretorum I have endeavoured in the following pages to give some account of the Secreta Secretaram and its history, to summarise what is known of the authors of this translation, and, though relieved of much of the work which would otherwise have fallen upon me by the work of another editor in this series (dr. Schick), to add some remarks on the language and peculiaiities of the poem. The text printed is that of Sloane 2464. It is the fullest and the earliest copy we possess. N o emendation 18 made without the authority of the other mss., and these are careqy noted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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