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Matthew Paris (1200-1259)
Category
Books
Date
1601
Materials
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3079664
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],696,[24]p. . fol.. Identified in 1796 inventory: F 52, price 6s. 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. manuscript bookseller's[?] marks on front pastedown and title page verso: E t pt/e E Pye" and ".f/w/n".. Binding: Seventeenth-century blind paneled calf binding; gilt roll on board edges; gold-tooled spine (title label missing).
Makers and roles
Matthew Paris (1200-1259) Florence of Worcester (d.1118) Scotus Marianus (1028-1082) Matthew Parker (1504-1575) Archbishop of Canterbury Robert de Reading (d.1325) William Rishanger (1250-1312)