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MATTHEW PARIS Matthaei Paris monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia Maior. Iuxta exemplar Londinense 1571, verbatim recusa. Et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri, authorisque maiori minorique historiis chronicisque MSS, in Bibliotheca Regia, collegij Corporis Christi Cantabrigiae, Cottoniaque, fideliter collata. Huic primum editioni accesserunt, duorum Offarum Merciorum regum; & viginti trium abbatum S. Albani vitae: una cum libro additamentorum. Per eundem authorem. Editore Willielmo Wats S.T.D. Qui & variantes lectiones, adversaria, vocumque barbararum glossarium, adiecit: simul cum rerum, nominumque, indicibus locupletissimis. Parisiis, Apud viduam Guillielmi Pele, 1644.
Printer's mark+ engraved print of Matthew Paris + a few engravings in the text + some small vignettes. Leather. Gr. 6to. (XXVIII), 680, (116), (XII), 215, (9) pp. *spine on the right side damaged, edges covers slightly damaged, otherwise good condition*
'Matthew Paris (d. 1259?) is commonly regarded as England's greatest medieval historian. The 'Historia Anglorum', begun in 1250, is an abridgement, concentrating on English history, of the 'Chronica Majora', but it also includes some additional material for the period A.D. 1067-1253. Matthew Paris became a monk of St. Albans in 1217, and succeeded Roger Wendover as historiographer of that abbey in 1236. He drew his information from many documentary sources including papal bulls and royal letters and from conversations with eye-witnesses of the events narrated. (...) His style is graphic; his view is broad; and his opinions are expressed with fervour. He condems what he regarded as abuses of the court and church; he rebukes pope, king, nobles, and clergy, when he deems them worthy of blame. Matthew was a man of many interests and attainments'. E. Graves. A bibliography of English history to 1485. Oxford, 1975, 2941
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