Opus nouum. Gildas Britannus monachus cui sapientis cognome[n]tu[m] est inditum, de calamitate excidio, & conquestu Britanniae, 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:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gildas, 516?-570?

Contributor:

Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.

Ridley, R.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

History.

Great Britain--History--To 449--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066--Early works to 1800.

Penn Provenance:

Hämmerle, Albert (autograph, 1893) (bookplate)

Physical Description:

88 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm (8vo)

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-E⁸ 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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.), 11892

ESTC S105687

OCLC:

84749027