Matthaei 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 Cantabrigiae, Cottoni'aque, fidelit`er 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

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  • Matthaei 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 Cantabrigiae, Cottoni'aque, fidelit`er 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
  • Historia major
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Imprint
Londini : impensis A. Mearne, T. Dring, B. Tooke, T. Sawbridge, & G. Wells, MDCLXXXIV. [1684]
Added name
Roger, of Wendover, -1236. Flores historiarum.; Watts, William, 1590?-1649.
Publication year
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. ; 2°.
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

"Vitae 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.