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The flowers of History : especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain : from the beginning of the world to the year 1307 / collected by Matthew of Westminster ; translated from the original by C.D. Yonge.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259.
- Series:
- Bohn's antiquarian library
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- History, Ancient.
- Great Britain--History--To 1485.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 17 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : H.G. Bohn, 1853.
- Contents:
- V. 1: B.C. 4004 to A.D. 1066.
- V. 2: From A.D. 1066 to A.D. 1307.
- Notes:
- The text covering the period to 1259 is based on the author's Chronica majora ; the text covering the period 1259-1307 was partly compiled and partly composed by various writers at St. Albans and Westminster.
- Matthew of Westminster, "an imaginary name given to a supposed author of a chronicle called 'Flores historiarum'; it is affixed to a manuscript of the 'Flores', probably written early in the fifteenth century ...
- For the most recent theory of authorship cf. Richard Vaughan. Matthew Paris. 1958; for the older theory cf. Dict. nat. biog.
- Index: v. 2, p. [597]-604.
- OCLC:
- 4058232
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