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Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam praecipui : ex vetustissimis codicibus manuscriptis nunc primum in lucem editi. Willielmi monachi Malmesburiensis De gestis regum Anglorum lib. V. Eiusdem Historiae nouellae lib. II. Eiusdem De gestis pontificum Angl. lib. IIII. Henrici Archidiaconi Huntindoniensis Historiarum lib. VIII. Rogeri Houedeni Annalium pars prior & posterior. Chronicorum Ethelwerdi lib. IIII. Ingulphi Abbatis Croylandensis Historiarum lib. I. Adiecta ad finem chronologia.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio EC55 Sa944 596r
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Great Britain--History--To 1485--Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain.
- Penn Provenance:
- Congregational Library (Boston, Mass.) (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered leaves, 520 leaves, 30 unnumbered leaves ; 35 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Rervm Anglicarvm scriptores post Bedam praecipvi
- Fingerprint:
- n-ui r.si ioa- tilu (3) 1596 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Londini : Excudebant G. Bishop, R. Nuberie, & R. Barker typographi regij deputati, Anno ab incarnatione MDXCI [1596]
- Notes:
- Dedicatory epistle signed: Henricus Sauile.
- "Willielmi monachi Malmesburiensis, De gestis regum Anglorum, libri quinque", "Henrici Archidiaconi Huntindoniensis Historiarum libri octo", "Rogeri de Houeden Annalium pars prior, & posterior", and "Chronicorum Ethelvverdi libri IIII. Ingulphi Abbatis Croylandensis Historiarum, lib. vnus" each have separate dated title page.
- The work attributed to Ingulf is a forgery of the 14th century.
- Signatures: [par.]² A-R⁶ S⁸ T-2D⁶ 2E⁴ 2F-4R⁶ 4S⁴ *-2*⁴ 3*⁶ ⁵A-⁵H².
- Printer's device on initial title page; woodcut initials; head- and tail pieces.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has blind stamp of the American Congregational Association Library in Boston and an illegible inscription at top of the title page.
- Culture Class Collection copy has ms. underlines in red pencil though leaves A1-I2 of 'Willielmi Malmesburiensis De gestis regum Anglorum".
- Cited in:
- ESTC S121919
- STC (2nd ed.) 21783
- Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson 339
- OCLC:
- 1405292
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