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A description of the state of Great Brittain : written eleven hundred yeares since / by that ancient and famous author Gildas, sir-named the Wise ; and for the excellency of the work, translated into English ... ; with his sharpe and Christian reproof to the kings and preists of those times.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection DA135 .G5513 1652
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gildas, 516?-570?
- Standardized Title:
- Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae. Pars 2. English
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History--To 449.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
- Penn Provenance:
- Erisey[?], Henry (autograph, 1654)
- Physical Description:
- 134 unnumbered pages, 327, that is, 325 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 16 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Epistle of Gildas
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock ..., 1652.
- Notes:
- Translation, with introduction, by Thomas Abingdon of the 2nd pt. of: Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae.
- A reissue, with cancel t.p., of: The epistle of Gildas, 1638.
- Running title: The epistle of Gildas.
- Signatures: *⁴ A¹² b-e¹² f⁴(-f4) B-O¹² P⁸.
- Text and marginalia printed within ruled borders.
- Page 325 misnumbered 327.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- Penn Libraries copy has early ownership inscription of Henry Erisey(?), dated 1654, on front pastedown.
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: last leaf (blank?) wanting.
- Cited in:
- ESTC R7805
- Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), G727
- OCLC:
- 30441225
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