Research Catalog

Title

Historia major. Juxta exemplar Londinense 1571, verbatim recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri, authorisque majori minorique historiis chronicisque mss., in Bibliotheca Regia, Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabrigiæ, Cottoniáque, fidelitèr collata. Huic primùm editioni accesserunt, duorum Offarum Merciorum regum; & viginti trium abbatum S. Albani vitæ: unà cum libro Additamentorum. Editore Willielmo Wats, S.T.D., qui & variantes lectiones, adversaria, vocúmque barbararum glossarium, adjecit; simul cum rerum, nominumque, indicibus locupletissimis.

Author

Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259.

Publication

Londini, Excudebat R. Hodgkinson, Sumptibus Cornelii Bee & Laurentii Sadler, 1640.

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Additional Authors

• Roger, of Wendover, -1236.
• Rishanger, William, 1250?-1312?.
• Watts, William, 1590?-1649.

Description

2 pts. in 1 v. illus., port.; 36 cm.

Subjects

• Offa, of Angel, active 4th century
• Great Britain > History > Medieval period, 1066-1485
• St. Albans Abbey
• Offa, King of the Mercians, -796

Note

• Title vignette: device of R. Hodgkinson?
• Half-title: Matthæi Parisiensis Opera.
• The Vitæ dvorvm Offarvm et viginti trivm abbatvm Sancti Albani has special t.p., and separate paging, with imprint: Londini, Excudebat M. Flesher, prostant apud C. Bee & L. Sadler, 1639. The authorship of this work is uncertain; only part, if any, is by Paris. The Additamenta has special t.-p. with imprint: Londini, Excusum typis M. Flesher, 1639.
• "A composite chronicle, containing the St. Albans compilation to the end of 1188, Roger de Wendover's chronicle, 1189-1235, both revised by Paris, and his own work from 1235 to 1259."--Dict. nat. biog.
• The continuation ascribed to Rishanger (p. 989-1009) covers the period from 1259 to 1273.

Call Number

CF+ (Paris, M. Historia major)

LCCN

48030772

OCLC

4296126

Author

Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259.

Title

Historia major. Juxta exemplar Londinense 1571, verbatim recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri, authorisque majori minorique historiis chronicisque mss., in Bibliotheca Regia, Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabrigiæ, Cottoniáque, fidelitèr collata. Huic primùm editioni accesserunt, duorum Offarum Merciorum regum; & viginti trium abbatum S. Albani vitæ: unà cum libro Additamentorum. Editore Willielmo Wats, S.T.D., qui & variantes lectiones, adversaria, vocúmque barbararum glossarium, adjecit; simul cum rerum, nominumque, indicibus locupletissimis.

Imprint

Londini, Excudebat R. Hodgkinson, Sumptibus Cornelii Bee & Laurentii Sadler, 1640.

Added Author

Roger, of Wendover, -1236.

Rishanger, William, 1250?-1312?. Attributed name

Watts, William, 1590?-1649.

Research Call Number

CF+ (Paris, M. Historia major)