Aelfredi regis res gestae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asser, John, -909.

Contributor:

Alfred, King of England, 849-899.

Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575.

Day, John, 1522-1584.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De rebus gestis Aelfredi

Language:

English

English, Old (ca. 450-1100)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alfred, King of England, 849-899.

Alfred.

Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. Regula pastoralis.

Gregory.

Great Britain--History--Alfred, 871-899.

Great Britain.

History.

Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Kings and rulers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Bibliotheca Lindesiana (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Simms (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 40 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Opera historica Thomae Walsingham PU

Fingerprint:

p-a) m.** ne*- pone (3) 1574 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[London] : [John Day], [1574]

Language Note:

The Res gestae and the Testamentum are in Latin, printed in Anglo-Saxon characters; the preface to the Pastoral care is in Anglo-Saxon with an interlinear translation in English, followed by a Latin translation.

Notes:

Imprint from STC.

Edited by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury.--Cf. STC.

Matthew Parker commissioned the printer John Day to arrange for the casting of the first Anglo-Saxon types by continental typefounders, and used them for the first time in Testimonie of Antiquitie (1566 or 1567).--Cf. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Issued with: T. Walsingham, Historia breuis Thomae Walsingham, ab Edwardo primo, ad Henricum quintum (STC 25004), and T. Walsingham, Ypodigma Neustriae vel Normanniae (STC 25005).--Cf. STC.

Title within ornamental woodcut border.

Woodcuts: head- and tailpieces; inhabited initials.

Side-notes.

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴ [par.]1 A-F⁴.

Leaf D3 signed D4.

Includes the last will and testament of Alfred the Great, and the preface to his translation of St. Gregory's Pastoral care.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: title leaf wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Walsingham, Thomas. Historia breuis Thomae VValsingham, ab Edwardo primo, ad Henricum quintum. Londini : Excusum apud Henricum Binneman typographum sub insigno Syrenis, Anno Domini 1574.

Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate, and accompanying shelf-mark in pencil, of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana, on the front paste-down endpaper. The Bibliotheca Lindesiana was the collection of Alexander William Crawford Lindsay (1812-1880), twenty-fifth earl of Crawford and eighth earl of Balcarres, and his only son, James Ludovic Lindsay (1847-1913), twenty-sixth earl of Crawford and ninth earl of Balcarres. The bookplate features a coat of arms (Lindsay quartering Abernethy) with the motto, "endure fort", above.

Culture Class Collection copy has the label of "Simms, bookseller and binder, Wigan", England, on the front paste-down endpaper.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.), 863

ESTC, S118080

Rosenwald, 1243

Crankshaw & Gillespie, 'Parker, Matthew (1504-1575)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

OCLC:

13082314