Historiae anglicanae scriptores X : Simeon monachus Dunelmensis, Johannes prior Hagustaldensis, Ricardus prior Hagustaldensis, Ailredus abbas Rievallensis, Radulphus de Diceto Londoniensis, Johannes Brompton Jornallensis, Gervasius monachus Dorobornensis, Thomas Stubbs dominicanus, Guilielmus Thorn Cantuariensis, Henricus Knighton Leicestrensis / ex vetustis manuscriptis, nunc primum in lucem editi ; adjectis variis lectionibus, glossario, indicéque copioso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twysden, Roger, Sir, 1597-1672.

Contributor:

Selden, John, 1584-1654.

Simeon, of Durham, -approximately 1130.

John, of Hexham, active 1180.

Richard, of Hexham, active 1141.

Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167.

Diceto, Ralph de, -1202?

Gervase, of Canterbury, approximately 1141-approximately 1210.

Thorne, William, active 1397.

Knighton, Henry, active 1363.

Flesher, James, -1670, printer.

Bee, Cornelius, bookseller.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Medieval period, 1066-1485.

Great Britain.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, L pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 8 pages, 9-2296 color, 2 unnumbered pages, 2311-2768 color, 201 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 34 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Half-title: Historiae Anglicanae scriptores antiquii : nunc primum in lucem editi

Place of Publication:

Londini : Typis Jacobi Flesher, sumptibus Cornelii Bee, MDCLII [1652]

Contents:

De Dunelmensi ecclesia, De gestis regum Anglorum / Simeon Monachus Dunelmensis ; cum continuatione Joh. Prioris Hagustaldensis. De statu & episcopis Hagustaldensis ecclesiae, De gestis Regis Stephani & bello standardi / Richardus Prior Hagustaldensis

Ailredi Abbatis Rievallensis Historia : De bello standardii tempori Stephani Regis, De genealogia regum Anglorum, De vita & miraculis Edwardi Regis & confessoris, etc.

Radulphi de Diceto Decani Londoniensis Abbreviationes chronicorum & Ymagines historiarum

Chronicon Johannis Bromton Abbatis Jornalensis ab Anno Domini 588 quo S. Augustinus venit in Angliam usque mortem Regis Ricardi I sciliect Annum Domini 1198

Gervasii Monachi Dorobornensis sive Cantuariensis Tractatus de combustione & reparatione Dorobornensis ecclesiae, Imaginationes de discordiis inter monachos Cantuarienses & Archiepiscopum Baldewinum, Chronica de tempore regum Angliae, Stephani, Hen. II & Ricardi I, Vitae Dorobornensium Archiepiscoporum : cui accesserunt Vitae Eboracensium Archiepiscoporum per Thomam Stubbes Dominicanum

Chronica Guill. Thorne Monachi S. Augustini Cant. De rebus gestis abbatum Sancti Augustini Cantuarie : cui accessit Chronologia quondam spectans ad praedictum coenobium Augustinense

Henrici Knighton Canonici Leycestrensis Chronica de eventibus Angliae à tempore Regis Edgari usque mortem Regis Ricardi secundi.

Notes:

"Lectori" signed: Roger Twysden.

"Ad lectorem, Ioannes Seldenus, de scriptoribus hisce nunc primum editis": P. i-l.

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁶ a-f⁴ g²(-g2) A⁴ B-5B⁶ 5C-5F⁴ 5G², ²A-2C⁶ 2D⁸ 2E-2M⁶ 2N⁶(-2N4,2N6).

Title in red and black.

Text printed in double columns.

Printed marginalia.

Woodcut initial and engraved illustrations.

Errata on leaves ²2D8r and ²2N5.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy bound in three volumes.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy bound in contemporary full vellum with green ties; title written in ms. on spine; all edges blue.

RBC copy has p. XLIX-L inserted after p. [195] at end.

Cited in:

ESTC R5810

Passmann-Vienken. Swift's Library, III, p. 1875

OCLC:

5639422