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Rerum Britannicarum scriptores vetustiores et praecipui. Heidelb.
1587.
fol. viz.
Galfridus Monumetensis.
Ponticus Virunnius.
Gildas.
Beda.
Gulielmus Neubricensis.
Ioannes Frossardus.
1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 79, as above.
Rervm britannicarvm, id est Angliæ, Scotiæ, vicinarvmqve insvlarvm ac regionvm: scriptores vetvstiores ac præcipvi. Galfredi
Monvmetensis, cognomento: Arturi de origine & gestis Regum Britanniæ libri XII. Pontici Virvnnii Britannicæ historiæ libri
VI . . . Gildæ Sapientis, de excidio & conquestu Britanniæ epistola. Bedæ anglosaxonis Historiæ Ecclesiasticæ gentis Anglorum
libri V . . . Gvlielmvs Nevbricensis de rebus Anglicis libri V. Ioannis Frossardi Historiarum Epitome . . .
Heidelbergæ: [apud
Hieronymum Commelinvm,]
1587.
DA130 .A2R4
First Edition. Folio, 297 leaves; printer’s woodcut device on the title-page, woodcut initials.
Brunet IV, page 69.
Graesse VI, page 333.
Gross 577.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
19.19.
Hieronymus Commelinus, c. 1550-1597, printer, a native of Douay, was the editor of this work, the first printed collection of English chroniclers.
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Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam praecipui. edited by Henry Savile.
fol.
London.
1596. viz.
Gulielmus Malmesburiensis.
Henricus Huntindoniensis.
Rogerus Hovedenus.
Chronicon Ethelwerdi.
Ingulphus.
1815 Catalogue, page 20. no. 80, Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam praecipui, by Savile, fol Lond. 1596, sc. Gulielmus
Malmsburiensis, Henricus Huntindoniensis, Rogerus Hovedenus, Chronicon Ethelwerdi, Ingulphus
[SAVILE,
Sir Henry,
Editor.]
Rervm Anglicarvm Scriptores Post Bedam Præcipvi, ex Vetvstissimis Codicibvs Manvscriptis Nvnc Primvm in Lvcem Editi . . . Londini: Excudebant
G. Bishop,
R. Nvberie, &
R. Barker Typographi Regij Deputati. Anno ab incarnatione, cIɔ Ic xcvI.
[
sic
in Sowerby] [
1596.]
DA170 .S26 1596
First Edition. Folio. 522 leaves followed by 30 leaves of table, printer’s woodcut device on the title, separate titles for each
part within woodcut borders, woodcut initials.
Lowndes IV, 2195.
Hazlitt II, 200.
STC 21783.
Contains the chronicles of William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntington, Roger of Hoveden, Ethelwerd and Ingulph, the last named
with the addition of the forged passage which makes Ingulph a student of Oxford in the twelfth century.
Sir Henry Savile, 1549-1622, provost of Eton and one of the most learned scholars of his day.
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