Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam praecipui, ex vetustissimis codicibus manuscriptis nunc primum in lucem editi. Willielmi monachi Malmesburiensis De gestis regum Anglorum lib. V. Eiusdem Historiae nouellae lib. II. Eiusdem De gestis pontificum Angl. lib. IIII. Henrici Archidiaconi Huntindoniensis Historiarum lib. VIII. Rogeri Houedeni Annalium pars prior & posterior. Chronicorum Ethelvverdi lib. IIII. Ingulphi abbatis Croylandensis Historiarum lib. I. Adiecta ad finem chronologia. Cum indice rerum ac verborum memorabilium locupletissimo.
Sir Henry Savile (1549-1622)
Category
Books
Date
1601
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031856
Summary
Bibliographic description
916, [92] p. ; fol. Former shelfmark: 5.K.24. Running number: 1387. Imperfect: mouse or rat damage on top corner of leaves from title page through to leaf K1, with some loss of printed text. Provenance: manuscript Newbattle Abbey shelfmark on verso of front fly-leaf: "b.4.12" (crossed-out). Manuscript code on verso of front fly-leaf: "T:p:". Early armorial bookplate (Franks 17069 or *558) on verso of front fly-leaf: 'The Most Honble. William Marquiss of Lothian' [i.e. William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian (1661-1722)]. Originally this book was in the library at Newbattle Abbey, the Lothian's principal Scottish seat, and was presumably brought to Blickling after 1850 when the Lothian's came into their ownership of Blickling through marriage. Binding: seventeenth-century full lightly sprinkled calf; sewn on six raised bands; double blind fillet border; single gilt fillet along board edges; gilt roll pattern decoration tooled over double blind fillets on either side of raised bands on spine; gilt title 'Anglicarum Rerum Script.' on green goatskin label on spine; red painted textblock edges. Folded strips of fifteenth-century printed waste line the endpapers.
Makers and roles
Sir Henry Savile (1549-1622), editor William of Malmesbury (c.1090 - c.1143), author Henry of Huntingdon (1084-1155) Archdeacon of Huntingdon, author Roger of Hoveden (d..c.1201), author Ethelwerd (d.998?), author Ingulf (1030-1109), author