Flores historiarum per Matthæum Westmonasteriensem collecti, præcipu de rebus Britannicis ab exordio mundi vsque ad annum Domini. 1307.

All titles

• Flores historiarum per Matthæum Westmonasteriensem collecti, præcipu de rebus Britannicis ab exordio mundi vsque ad annum Domini. 1307.
• Historia major. Abridgments
• Incipit liber secundus, de coronatione regis Gulihelmi Primi, conquæstoris
• Flores historiarum.

People / Organizations

• Matthew Paris (Author)

Imprint

Londini: ex officina Thomæ Marshij, anno Domini. 1570 [2 June]

Publication year

?

ESTC No.

S113615

Grub Street ID

133344

Description

[10], 440, 218, [2], 219-466, [22] p. ; 2⁰

Note

Book 1, covering through the year 1066, follows closely the "Historia major" of Matthew Paris. Book 2 is an abridgment from the same work, with additions, covering 1067-1307. The additions from 1259-1273 have been attributed to William Rishanger.

"Matth¾um Westmonasteriensem" is a fictitious name traditionally assigned to this compilation.

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

Edited by Matthew Parker.

Uncontrolled note

Other fingerprints associated with this issue: K3 is signed R3; signature-mark O2 is under "q; l?"; in index, **3r catchword is "Tractatus". Quires A-X and the index are sometimes mixed with STC 17653a; match on A3r fingerprint