Opus nouum. Gildas Britannus monachus cui sapientis cognome[n]tu[m] est inditum, de calamitate excidio, & conquestu Britanniæ, quam Angliam nunc uocant : author uetustus a multis diu desyderatus, & nuper in gratiam D. Cuthberti Tonstalli, Londinen[sis] Episcopi formulis excusus. In hoc authore, preter multiplicem hic illic historiaru[m] interpositionem, uidere licet grauissimas illius temporis regu[m], pri[n]cipu[m], ducu[m], episcoporum ... &c. correptio[n]es ..

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Gildas, 516?-570?

Contributor:

Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.

Ridley, R.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 101:9.

Standardized Title:

Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--To 440--Early works to 1800.

Local Subjects:

Great Britain--History--To 440--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

88 unnumbered pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae.

Opus novum. Gildas Britannus monachus cui sapientis cognomentum est inditum, de calamitate excidio, & conquestu Britanniae, quam Angliam nunc vocant.

Gildas Britannus monachus cui sapientis cognomentum est inditum, de calamitate excidio, & conquestu Britanniae, quam Angliam nunc vocant.

Place of Publication:

[Antwerp?] : [Printed by Christoffel van Ruremund?], [1525?]

Notes:

An edition of "Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae".

Edited by Polydore Vergil and R. Ridley.

Imprint from STC; "the Ruremond involved may have been Hans". Dedication dated April 1525.

Signatures: A-E F4.

Variant 1: title page has "PRFTER .. Ep̄orum". Variant 2: title page has "PRETER .. Ep̄orum".

Not an STC book; for more details see "The Library", ser. 6, vol. 1 (1979), p. 355-360.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1941. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 101:09). s1941 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 11892.

OCLC:

187605107