Historiae anglicanae circà tempus conquestùs Angliae à Gulielmo Notho, Normannorum duce, selecta monumenta : excerpta ex magno volumine, cui titulus est "Historiae Normannorum scriptores antiqui," à doctissimo viro Andréà Duchesne, Turonensi, olim edito, Lutetiae Parisiorum, anno Domini Jesu Christi M. DC. XIX. Cum notis plurimis, anglico sermone, ad illustrandum textum, conscriptis, à Francisco Maseres
1807, First Edition. London : J. White. Good copy in later nineteenth century gilt-tooled, full leather boards, now somewhat scuffed. Corners bumped, with panel edges worn. Spine heavily rubbed and lacking label; joints and endbands show heavy wear, with front joint cracked but spine supports holding (front hinge additionally repaired with tape). The text block remains strong, showing only faint and sparse foxing or dust, chiefly to the margins. Despite its faults, a well-preserved example. Provenance; Bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer. Item #473623
Physical description; xxiv, 438 pages : including genealogical tables ; 26 cm. Notes; Text in Latin, edited with English preface and notes by Francis Maseres. Contents; Emmae Anglorum reginae, Richardi I. ducis Normannorum, filiae, encomium, incerto auctore, sed coaetaneo. Item Gesta Guillelmi II. ducis Normannorum, regis Anglorum I. à Guillelmo Pictavensi, Lexoviorum archidiacono, contemporaneo, scripta. Ex bibliothecâ nobilissimi viri Roberti Cottoni (with special title page, London, 1783) -- Excerpta ex Orderici Vitalis ... ecclesiasticae historiae libris tertio et quarto -- Annalis historia brevis in Monasterio Sancti Stephani Cadomensis conscripta -- Excerpta quaedam ex Appendice doctissimi viri Andreae Du Chesne ad rerum normannicarum scriptores -- Familiae regum, ducum, comitum, et aliorum nobilium, quae in hoc volumine deducuntur. Subjects; Great Britain. History. To 1485. Norman Conquest. Anglo-Norman history. Medieval history. Primary sources. Orderic Vitalis. William of Poitiers. Emma of Normandy. Richard I of Normandy. William the Conqueror.
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