Eadmeri monachi Cantuariensis historiæ nouorum . siue sui sæculi libri VI res gestas (quibus ipse non modò spectator diligens sed comes etiam & actor plerunq<q3> interfuit) sub Guilielmus I & II & Henrico I Angliæ Regibus, ab anno nempè salutis MLXVI ad MCXXII potissimùm complexi. In lucem ex bibliotheca Cottoniana emisit Ioannes Seldenus, & notas porrò adjecit & spicilegium.
Eadmer (c.1060 - c.1124)
Category
Books
Date
1623
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3043871
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],XVI,218,[2]p. ill. ; fol. Running number: 1465. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front endleaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys]. Seventeenth-century(?) name or initials at head of first front endleaf struck through. Letters in seventeenth-century hand on lower pastedown: "Ep". Binding: seventeenth-century full reverse(?) calf over boards (worn and torn) with double gilt fillet border; six raised bands; gilt tooled spine with gilt title tooled directly on to spine; two colour endbands; pastedown with guard attachment and endleaves; red sprinkled edges. Minor woodworm damage to boards.
Makers and roles
Eadmer (c.1060 - c.1124) John Selden (1584-1654) Stansby, William, printer Meighen, Richard, publisher Dewe, Thomas, publisher