from Paganism to Christianity. Translated into Modern
English, with Notes, &c. By Eliz. Elstob.
London: Printed by
W. Bowyer.
mdccix
. [1709.]
PR1526 .G8 A2 1709
First Edition of this translation. 8vo. 96 leaves, continuous signatures, separate pagination for the Preface, the
English-Saxon Homily, the
Latin version and the Appendix; list of subscribers on 6 pages at the end, engraved frontispiece by S. Gribelin, engraved vignette on the title-page, engraved head-pieces, engraved historiated initials, two with portraits, one of St.
Gregory, the other of Elizabeth Elstob, some signed by S. Gribelin,
Saxon and
English texts in parallel columns,
Latin version in long lines.
Not in Lowndes.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 77.
Entered by Jefferson without price in his undated manuscript catalogue.
Aelfric, fl. 1006, English abbot, known as Grammaticus, was the author of two books of homilies, each containing forty sermons, compiled
and translated into English from the sermons of various Latin writers.
Elizabeth Elstob published this work by subscription and dedicated it to Queen Anne.
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133
Bedae historia ecclesiastica, paraphrasi
Saxonicâ Alfredi.
fol.
Chronologia
Anglo-Saxonica à Wheeloc.
fol.
Archaionomia Lambardi. à Wheeloc.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 163, no. 152, Bedae historia ecclesiastica paraphrasi Saxonica Alfredi, fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 164, no. 153, Chronologia Anglo-Saxonica a Wheeloc. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 163, no. 154, Archaionomia Lambardi a Wheeloc, fol.
BEDE,
The Venerable.
Historiae Ecclesiasticae gentis Anglorum Libri V, a Venerabili Beda presbytero scripti: Tribus praecipue MSS.
Latinis, à mendis haud paucis repurgati: Ab Augustissimo Veterum
Anglo-Saxonum rege Aluredo (sive Alfredo) examinati; ejusque paraphrasi
Saxonicâ eleganter explicati; Tribus nunc etiam MSS.
Saxonicis collati: Unà cum Annotationibus, & Analectis è Publicis veteris Ecclesiae Anglicanae homiliis aliisque MSS.
Saxonicis, huic indè excerptis, nec anteà
Latinè datis: quibus in calce operis
Saxonicam Chronologiam seriem hujus imprimis historiae complectentem, nunquam antea in lucem editam, nunc quoq
3 primò
latine versam contexuimus: Opera haec ferè omnia
Saxonica hactenus in archivis recondita, nunc demum in Republicae Literariae usum de prompta e Bibliotheca publica Cantabrigiensi.
Quibus accesserunt Anglo-Saxonicae Leges: et ultimò Leges Henrici I. Nunc primum editae.
Cantabrigiae: Ex officiana
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
Rogeri Daniel; celeberrimae Academiae typographi; prostant
Londini apud
Cornelium Bee,
mdcxliiii
. [1644.]
Folio. 3 parts in 1, with separate title-pages for
Chronologia
Anglo-Saxonica elegans et perantique ex duobus manuscriptis feliciter eruta . . . Cui
Latina versio apposite respondet, opera & studio Abraham Wheloci
, with the imprint of
Roger Daniel and
Cornelius Bee and
’Αρχιονομια, sive De Priscis Anglorum legibus . . . Gulielmo Lambardo interprete, with the same imprint; title-pages in red and black,
Anglo-Saxon and
Latin texts in parallel columns; double-page map of the Heptarchy engraved by
W. Hole in the last part.
A copy was not available for collation. The
title was taken from the cards for this work in the National
Union Catalog.
This edition not in Lowndes and not in Hazlitt.
STC B1662.
Not in Bowes.
Barnes, page 19.
