2 parts in 1. Folio. 583 and 168 leaves, engraved frontispiece by T. Cecill.
STC 19210.
Hazlitt III, suppl. 66.
Matthew Paris, d. 1259, English historian and monk. The
Historia Major contains the St. Albans Chronicle to 1188, Roger de Wendover’s chronicle, 1189-1235, both revised by Matthew Paris, whose
own chronicle begins at 1235. The first edition was printed in 1571. This is the first edition edited by William Watts, 1590?-1649,
chaplain to Prince Rupert.
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Matthaei Westmonasteriensis flores historiarum.
fol. 1-1307.
1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 85, as above.
MATTHEW OF WESTMINSTER.
Flores Historiarvm per Matthæum Westmonasteriensem collecti, præcipuè de rebus Britannicis ab exordio mundi vsque ad Annum Domini, 1307. Londini: ex officina
Thomæ Marshij [secundo die Iunij], Anno Domini,
1570.
DA220 .M438
Folio. 2 parts in 1, each with 234 leaves, the last a blank; title within a woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials;
the colophon gives the exact date of printing; Liber Secundus begins on Aaa,with separate pagination.
Lowndes III, page 1517.
Hazlitt IV, page 166.
STC 1765a.
Gross 1774.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
12.0.
Matthew of Westminster is a fictitious name, derived from Matthew of Paris, whose chronicle was the basis of this work, and Westminster Abbey, where
his manuscript was at one time kept.
Matthew Parker, 1504-1575, archbishop of Canterbury, was the editor of the
Flores Historiarum, of which the first edition was published in 1567. The second edition, with additions from other manuscripts, was published
by Thomas Marsh in 1567, in 2 issues, both dated June 2, but with different titles, the other reading:
Matthaeus Westmonasteriensis de rebus britannicis . . .
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Brady’s hist. of England.
2. v.
fol. 59 A.C.-1216.
1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 83, Brady’s history of England, 59 A C-1216, 2 v fol.
BRADY,
Robert.
A complete History of England, from the First Entrance of the Romans under the Conduct of Julius Caesar, unto the End of the
Reign of King Henry III . . . [-A Continuation of the Complete History of England: containing the Lives and Reigns of Edward
I. II. & III. and Richard the Second.] By Robert Brady, Doctor in Physic.
[
London] In the Savoy: vol. I. printed by
Tho. Newcomb for
Samuel Lowndes,
1685, vol. II. by
Edward Jones for
Sam. Lowndes, and
Awnsham and John Churchil,
1700.
DA130 .B81 and DA130 .B82
Together 2 vol.
First Editions. Folio. vol. I, 541 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of James II by R. White after Saml. Lowndes; vol. II, 313 leaves, engraved frontispiece with the title and portraits of four kings in oval compartments by R. W[hite]; the text is followed by the Appendix with separate pagination.
Lowndes I, 253.
Hazlitt III, page 23 (no collation).
Arber II, page 144 and III, page 70.
STC B4187.
Robert Brady, d. 1700, English historian and physician. The tory and monarchical tendencies of his history were approved by Hume (q.v.)
but provoked Sir James Tyrrell to write a whig history in opposition; see the following entry.
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