Bf.4.08
[Chronica majora]
Matthæi Paris monachi Albanensis Angli, historia major. Juxta exemplar Londinense 1571, verbatim recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri, authorisque majori minorique historiis chronicisque mss. ... Huic primù editioni accesserunt, duorum Offarum Merciorum regum, & viginti trium abbatum S. Albani vitæ: unà cum libro additamentorum. Per eundem authorem. Editore Willielmo Wats ...
Londini : Excudebat Richardus Hodgkinson. Sumptibus Cornelii Bee & Laurentii Sadler, 1640.
[50], 1010, [120], 310, [2]p : ill. ; Fo.
Previously Bd.3.8.
Half-title reading "Matthæi Parisiensis opera", with engraved portrait of Matthew Paris on verso.
"Historia majora" edited by Matthew Parker.
The "Vitæ duorum Offarum ..." has own title-page with imprint "Londini, Excudebat Milo Flesher ...", with date 1639.
Ms. price.
X.
STC 19210
Bookplate of Eton College.
Topham stamp; bequeathed to Eton by Richard Topham in 1736.
Signature: "J: D'Arcy".
Ms. note reading "Octob. ye 30th - 1640 I warrant this perfect ?Mr. Anthony Hall".
?18th century rough calf.
Great Britain History Medieval period, 1066-1485.
Roger of Wendover, Flores historiarum.
Watts, William, 1590? - 1649 editor.
Parker, Matthew, 1504 - 1575 editor.
England London.
B12399