Matthæi Paris monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia major. Juxta exemplar Londinense 1640, 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 editioni accesserunt, duorum Offarum Merciorum regum; & viginti trium Abbatum S. Albani vitae. Una cum libro additamentorum. Per eundem authorem. Editore Willielmo Wats S.T.D. Qui & variantes lectiones, adversaria, vocumque barbarum glossarium, adjecit: simul cum rerum, nominumque, indicibus locupletissimis

People / Organizations

• Matthew Paris (Author)

Imprint

Londini: impensis A. Mearne, T. Dring, B. Tooke, T. Sawbridge, & G. Wells, MDCLXXXIV. [1684]

Publication year

1684-1684

ESTC No.

R25517

Grub Street ID

359198

Description

[130], 424, 451-859, 856-861, [13], 961-1048, 1041-1175, [37] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 2⁰.

Note

Based on an earlier work by Roger of Wendover also known as "Flores historiarum", probably based in turn on an earlier St. Albans chronicle. Cf. Vaughan, Richard. Matthew Paris (Cambridge, 1958).

Title page in red and black.

"Vitæ duorum Offarum" has a separate title page, dated 1683; pagination continues on p. 961 with quire 6N.

The authorship of Vitae duorum Offarum is uncertain, only part, if any, is by Paris--NUC pre-1956 imprints.

Edited by William Watts.

Includes glossary and index.