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Aelfredi Magni Anglorum regis invictissimi vita tribus libris comprehensa / a clarissimo Dno Johanne Spelman Henrici F. primum Anglice conscripta, dein Latine reddita, & annotationibus illustrata ab Aelfredi in Collegio Magnae Aulae Universitatis Oxoniensis alumnis.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spelman, John, Sir, 1594-1643.
- Standardized Title:
- Life of Ælfred the Great. Latin
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Alfred, King of England, 849-899.
- Alfred.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (bookplate)
- Grove, Robert (autograph, 1701)
- Physical Description:
- 40 unnumbered pages, 219 pages, 13 unnumbered pages, 7 leaves of plates : portraits ; 37 cm (folio)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxonii : E Theatro Sheldoniano, Anno Dom. MDCLXXVIII [1678]
- Notes:
- A Latin translation of Sir John Spelman's Life of Ælfred the Great.
- Hearne, responsible for the first edition in the original English, in 1709, identifies the translator as Christopher Wase (Cf. Madan)
- Signatures: A⁴ [a]² b² c⁴ d² B-U² X-2R⁴, ²S-U².
- Engraved title vignette, head-pieces and illustrations.
- Woodcut initial.
- Printed marginalia.
- Errata on leaf 2R4.
- Includes index.
- Penn Libraries copy has Henry Charles Lea's bookplate on front pastedown; autograph ("Lib. Rob. Grove ... 1701") on t.p. verso; leaf c2 bound before leaf c3.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: Lea copy has 6 plates only.
- Cited in:
- Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S4934
- Madan, III, 3197
- ESTC R4024
- OCLC:
- 78910620
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