11
Gildas.
Eng.
16
s.
1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 1, Gildas. Eng. 16.
GILDAS.
A Description of the State of Great Britain, Written Eleven Hundred Yeares since. By that ancient and famous Author Gildas, sir-named the Wise, and for the excellency of the Work translated into
English . . . With his sharpe and Christian Reproof to the Kings and Priests of those Times.
London: Printed and are to be sold by
John Hancock,
1652.
12mo. 231 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of Gildas, by Will. Marshall.
Lowndes II, 892.
Hazlitt II, 250.
STC G727.
Gildas, c. 516-c. 570, historian of Britain, whose work is one of the source books of British history.
Thomas Harington, 1560-1647, made this translation, first printed in 1638, whilst undergoing imprisonment in the Tower.
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Eadmerus Seldeni.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 78, as above.
EADMER.
Eadmeri Monachi Cantvariensis Historiæ novorvm siue Sui Sæculi Libri VI Res gestas (quibus ipse non modò spectator diligens sed comes
etiam & actor plerunq interfuit) sub Guilielmis I & II & Henrico I Angliæ Regibus, ab anno nempè salutis MLXVI ad MCXXII potissimum
complexi. In lucem ex Bibliotheca Cottoniana emisit Ioannes Seldenvs, & Notas porrò adjecit & spicilegium . . .
Londini: Typis & Impensis
Guilielmi Stanesbeij, ex officinis
Richardi Meighen &
Thomas Dew,
1623.
DA190 .E12
First Edition. Folio. 120 leaves, woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations of seals, title printed in red and black.
Lowndes II, page 707.
Hazlitt IV, page 35.
STC 7438.
Ordered by Jefferson on September 9, 1789, in a letter to
Lackington, no. 8809 in his last catalogue price
5/6. Listed without price on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Eadmer, d. 1124?, monk of Canterbury and English historian.
John Selden, 1584-1654, English jurist, edited Eadmer’s work from a manuscript in the Cotton Library. The dedication to the Bishop of
Lincoln, Lord Keeper, is dated V. Id. April, 1623.
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Anonymi brevis relatio de Willielmo Normannorum comite.
[in Taylor’s Gavelkind
]
1815 Catalogue, page 17. unnumbered, as above.
TAYLOR,
Silas.
[
Brevis Relatio de Willelmo, Nobilissimo Comite Normannorum, Quis fuit & unde Originem duxit, &c. Ab Authore Anonymo, Temp.
Hen. Primi.
Londini: Typis
Guil. Wilson pro
Johanne Starkey,
1663.]
in
The History of Gavel-Kind; with the Etymology thereof . . .
London: for
John Starkey,
1663.
See chapter 18. The
Brevis Relatio occupies the last four sheets of the
History of Gavel-Kind, with title on Bb
1.
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