Anglica, Normannica, Hibernica, Cambrica, a veteribvs scripta: . ex quibus Asser Meneuensis, Anonymus de vita Gulielmi Conquestoris, Thomas VValsingham, Thomas de la More, Gulielmus Gemiticensis, Giraldus Cambrensis: plerique nunc primùm in lucem editi, ex bibliotheca Gvilielmi Camdeni. Cvm indice, ...
Cambrensis Giraldus (1146-1223)
Category
Books
Date
1603
Materials
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3042128
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],898,[34]p . ill.. . fol.. Previous shelfmark: C.11.4. Imperfect: wanting final leaf. Identified in 1796 inventory: F 57 "Camdini Script Ang Norman Hib Cambr", price 7s. 6d. Christies, 21 June, 2004, lot 628.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914.. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf binding; double gilt fillet border, with double blind fillet running along spine-edge; gilt roll on board edges; gold-tooled spine. (title label missing).
Makers and roles
Cambrensis Giraldus (1146-1223) Thomas de la Moor William of Jumièges (fl.1026 - 1070) John Asser (d.909) Bishop of Sherborne William Camden (1551 - 1623) Dr. David Powell (1552-1598) Thomas Walsingham (fl.1360 - 1420)