Matthæi Paris monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia major. Juxta exemplar Londinense 1571, verbat"m recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri, authorisque majori minorique historiis chronicisque MSS, in Bibliotheca Regia, Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabrigiæ, Cottoniáque, fidelitr collata. Huic primm editioni accesserunt, duorum Offarum Merciorum Regum; & viginti trium abbatum S. Albani vitæ: unà cum libro additamentorum. Per eundem authorem. Editore Willielmo Wats S.T.D. Qui & variantes lectiones, adversaria, vocúmque barbararum glossarium, adjecit: simul cum rerum, nominúmque, indicibus locupletissimis.

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  • Matthæi Paris monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia major. Juxta exemplar Londinense 1571, verbat"m recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri, authorisque majori minorique historiis chronicisque MSS, in Bibliotheca Regia, Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabrigiæ, Cottoniáque, fidelitr collata. Huic primm editioni accesserunt, duorum Offarum Merciorum Regum; & viginti trium abbatum S. Albani vitæ: unà cum libro additamentorum. Per eundem authorem. Editore Willielmo Wats S.T.D. Qui & variantes lectiones, adversaria, vocúmque barbararum glossarium, adjecit: simul cum rerum, nominúmque, indicibus locupletissimis.
  • Historia major. Abridgments
  • Matthæi Parisiensis opera
  • Flores historiarum.
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Imprint
Londini: excudebat Richardus Hodgkinson [and Miles Flesher], 1640. Sumptibus Cornelii Bee & Laurentii Sadler, in vico vulgaritr dicto Little Britaine, [1640]
Publication year
1640-1640
ESTC No.
S115363
Grub Street ID
135055
Description
[50], 1009, [125], 310, [14] p. : port. (metal cut) ; 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. See Vaughan, Richard. "Matthew Paris" (Cambridge, 1958).

Edited by Matthew Parker.

Title page in red and black.

The first leaf bears half-title, "Matth¾i Parisiensis opera", on recto and portrait of the author, signed "T. Cecill sculp:", on verso.
Uncontrolled note
Rpm 12/05/96