Anglica, Hibernica, Normannica, Cambrica, . a veteribus scripta: ex quibus Asser Menevensis, anonymus de vita Gulielmi Conquestoris, Thomas Walsingham, Thomas de la More, Gulielmus Gemiticensis, Giraldus Cambrensis: plerique nunc primum in lucem editi, ex bibliotheca Guilielmi Camdeni. Cum indice, ...
Cambrensis Giraldus (1146-1223)
Category
Books
Date
1602
Materials
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3147278
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 898, [31]p. . fol.. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: Pp/2 [pencil]; Pp.6.2 [dark blue ink]. Numbered in pencil: 187. Possible earlier shelfmark in brown ink: T/4. Second free endpaper extensivly annotated possibly in two separate eighteenth-century hands; top corner of this endpaper cut away. With abundant further manuscript marginalia. Two further sheets inserted with additional manuscript notes. Provenance: Title page inscribed in seventeenth or eighteenth-century hand: Delagoutte. Armorial bookplate (after 1754): Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754. Also used in books acquired by his successors]. Binding: Seventeenth-century [French?] sheep; gilt fillet border; gilt laurel wreath centrepiece; gilt tooled spine; six raised bands; gilt lettered spine-label: Anglica Hibernica Normannica. Some insect damage.
Makers and roles
Cambrensis Giraldus (1146-1223) William of Jumièges (fl.1026 - 1070) John Asser (d.909) Bishop of Sherborne William Camden (1551 - 1623) Thomas Walsingham (fl.1360 - 1420)