The epistle of Gildas, the most ancient British author: . who flourished in the yeere of our Lord, 546. And who by his great erudition, sanctitie, and wisedome, acquired the name of sapiens. Faithfully translated out of the originall Latine.
Gildas (d.570)
Category
Books
Date
1638
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3025965
Summary
Bibliographic description
[134], 327 [i.e. 325] p. . port.. . 8vo. Inscription on title-page (probably not a name): 'Muni Mora'. Provenance: Inscription on flyleaf: 'Given to the Bp of Durham by Sr Henry Gould Knt one of the Judges in the Court of Common Pleas' [i.e. gift to John Egerton, bishop of Durham (1721-1787) (grandfather of Sophia lady Brownlow) from Sir Henry Gould the younger (1710-1794)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century plain calf binding; spine-label: 'Epistle of Gildas'.
Makers and roles
Gildas (d.570) Thomas Abingdon (1560 - 1647) William Marshall (fl.1617-1650)