Matthæi Paris monachi Albanensis Angli, historia major. . Juxta exemplar Londinense 1571, verbatìm recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri, authorisque majori minorique historiis chronicisque mss. ... Huic primùm editioni accesserunt, duorum Offarum Merciorum Regum; & viginti trium Abbatum S. Albani vitæ: unà cum libro additamentorum. Per eundem authorem. Editore Willielmo Wats S.T.D. ...
Matthew Paris (1200-1259)
Category
Books
Date
1640
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3042652
Summary
Bibliographic description
[50],1009,[109];[14],310,[12]p . port.. . fol.. Previous shelfmark: C.11.8. Imperfect: wanting preliminary licence leaf. Pagination: [48], 1009, [109]; [14], 310, [2] p. Identified in 1796 inventory: F 51 "Math Paris Hist Angliae, Wats", price 7s. 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. Armorial bookplate on title page verso: 'Gilbert Burnet Lord Bishop of Salisbury Chancellor of the most Noble Order of the Garter' [i.e. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715)].. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf binding.
Makers and roles
Matthew Paris (1200-1259) Roger of Wendover (d.1236) Matthew Parker (1504-1575) Archbishop of Canterbury William Rishanger (1250-1312) William Watts (c.1590 - 1649)