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Matthæi Paris monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia major : Juxta exemplar Londinense 1571, verbatìm recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri, authorisque majori minorique historiis chronicisque MSS, in Bibliotheca Regia, Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabrigiæ, Cottoniáque, fidelitèr collata. Huic primùm 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.

Author/creator Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259
Other author/creatorRishanger, William, 1250?-1312?
Other author/creatorRoger, of Wendover, d. 1236. Flores historiarum.
Other author/creatorWatts, William, 1590?-1649.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLondini : excudebat Richardus Hodgkinson [and Miles Flesher], 1641. Sumptibus Cornelii Bee & Laurentii Sadler, in vico vulgaritèr dicto Little Britaine, [1641]
Description[102], 267-310, [66], 265, [13], 288 p.
Supplemental Content https://search.proquest.com/docview/2248494458
Subject(s)
Offa, King of the Mercians, d. 796--Early works to 1800.
Offa, of Angel, 4th cent.
Alban, Saint d. 304?--Early works to 1800.
World history--Early works to 1800.
Great Britain--History --To 1485 --Early works to 1800.
Uniform titleHistoria major.
Variant title Matthæi Parisiensis Opera.
Variant title Matthæi Parisiensis Additamenta.
Series Early English books online. ^A888680
General noteBased 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).
General note"Vitæ duorum Offarum .. et viginti trium abbatum Sancti Albani" most of it probably not written by Paris, has separate title page, register and (more or less) pagination; the imprint reads "Londini, excudebat Milo Flesher M.DC.XXXIX. ..". "Matthæi Parisiensis additamenta" has separate title page dated 1639 with Flesher's name in imprint; pagination and register are continuous. "Matthæi Paris, in majorem historiam Anglorum post conquisitionem Angliæ a duce Normannorum Willielmo. Prologus" begins with a caption title on signature B1 and has separate pagination.
General noteIncludes indexes.
General noteText is continuous despite pagination.
General noteReproduction of the original in the British Library.
References Wing (2nd ed.) P358.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1956:1)
Other title Flores historiarum.
Other title Vitæ duorum Offarum sive Offanorum.
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