Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes

Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes - 1865 edition

This text uses UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that your browsers character set or file encoding is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. The text is based on the 1865 EETS edition of Thynnes Animadversions. Two purely typographic features have been adopted from the 1876 Chaucer Society re-edition of the same MS. Passages printed in [brackets] in 1865 have been changed to 1876s (parentheses); conversely, words or letters supplied by the editor are shown in [brackets], reserving italics for expanded abbreviations. Other differences, and ways of marking them, are explained at the end of the e-text. Although only the grandson of the first of his name, the author of the following interesting specimen of 16th-century criticism came of a family of great antiquity, of so great an antiquity, indeed, as to preclude our tracing it back to its origin. This family was originally known as the De Botfelds, but in the 15th century one branch adopted the more humble name of Thynne, or of the Inne. Why the latter name was first assumed has never been satisfactorily explained. It can hardly be supposed that John de la Inne de Botfelde, as he signed himself, kept a veritable hostelry and sold ale and provender to the travellers between Ludlow and Shrewsbury, and most probably the term Inn was used in the sense which has given us Lincolns Inn, Grays Inn, or Furnivalls Inn, merely meaning a place of residence of the higher class, though in this case inverted, the Inn giving its name to its owner. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 29261
Author: Thynne, Francis
Release Date: Jun 28, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Kingsley, G. H. (George Henry), 1827-1892