Six old English chronicles of which two are now first translated from the monkish Latin originals. . Ethelwerd's Chronicle. Asser's Life of Alfred. Geoffrey of Monmouth's British history. Gildas. Nennius. And Richard of Cirencester.
Ethelwerd (d.998?)
Category
Books
Date
1848
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Bateman's, East Sussex
NT 3112808
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, 512 p., frontis. port . ill.., port. . 18 cm.. Old shelfmark on endpaper verso: 6 D, 20thC purple ink stamp: The National Trust. Provenance: On pastedown Small pictorial bookplate (2.8x2.1cm): Ex Libris Rudyard Kipling AD 1894. Binding: Publisher's green cloth, blind embossed, rebacked, gold lettered on spine.
Makers and roles
Ethelwerd (d.998?) Geoffrey of Monmouth (1100-1154) Bishop of St. Asaph Gildas (d.570) Nennius (fl.796) John Asser (d.909) Bishop of Sherborne Charles Julius Bertram (1723-1765) John Allen Giles (1808-1884) William Gunn (1750-1841)