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Cornmuse (f)

(with) definite article: la
Cornemuse

Spelling in »The Edinburgh encyclopædia«, conducted by David Brewster, Volume III (Edinburgh, M.DCCC.XXX [1830]), in which the author refers to Chaucer, adding the quotation "Cornmuse and shalmes, many a floyte and lytlyngehorne"; NB¹: In »A glossary and etymological dictionary of obsolete and uncommon words« (London, 1832), William Toone refers to Chaucer’s “Book of fame” [sic] (i.e. the poem »House of fame«, 1379-1380), with the quotation “That made loud minstrelsies / In cornmuse and shalmies", but in several, more recent, editions this reads as "That maden loude menstralcyes / In cornemuse [sic] and shalmeyes", which seems to be Chaucer's original spelling; NB²: ➺ Also »Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language«, 1913; NB³: Galfridus refers to a Dr. Burney, who observes that "the cornmuse was the name of a horn or cornish pipe, blown like our bapipe.".


Sources

Utriculus, nuova serie XVI (54), II semestre 2017, Miscellanea zampognara, p.77-79: “The chaunter” (➺ p.78: »Brewster).

Galfridus (Grammaticus): Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum: Lexicon anglo-latinum princeps, tomus prior. Londini, MDCCCXLIII [i.e. in London, 1843], p.93.

Web

Google books (Brewster [Find cornmuse: p.196]).
ibidem (Toone [Find cornmuse: p.407]).
ibidem (Chaucer, »The House of Fame«, ed. Hastings, 2017 [Find cornemuse; NB: ➺ Book III, lines 127-128]).
ibidem (Galfridus [Find cormuse [sic]]).
Archive.org (Galfridus [➺ p.93, find Dr. Burney])
Webster [Find cornmuse].