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 barbarum glossarium, adjecit: simul cum rerum, nominúmque, indicibus locupletissimis.
| Author/creator | Paris, Matthew |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Londini : Excudebat Richardus Hodgkinson [and Miles Flesher], 1640. Sumptibus Cornelii Bee & Laurentii Sadler, in vico vulgaritèr dicto Little Britaine, [1640] |
| Description | [50], 1009, [111]; [14], 310, [14] p. : port. (metal cut) |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240849682 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575. |
| Other author/creator | Rishanger, William, 1250?-1312? |
| Other author/creator | Roger, of Wendover, d. 1236. Flores historiarum. |
| Other author/creator | Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver. |
| Other author/creator | Watts, William, 1590?-1649. |
| Uniform title | Historia major. Abridgments |
| Variant title | Historia major. |
| Variant title | Matthæi Parisiensis opera. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | Based 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 | The "Historia major" is edited by Matthew Parker. |
| General note | Title page in red and black. |
| General note | Half-title reads: Matthæi Parisiensis opera. |
| 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 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. |
| General note | With an engraved portrait of Matthew Paris, signed: T. Cecill sculp:. |
| General note | Includes indexes. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
| References | STC (2nd. ed.) 19210. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1077:1) |
| Other title | Flores historiarum. |
| Other title | Vitæ duorum Offarum. |
| Stock number | CL0036000029 ProQuest. 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3218 |