Matthew of Paris's Angli Historia Major (1589)
ONLY ONE OTHER KNOWN COPY
PARIS, Matthew (c. 1200-1259)
Matthaei Paris, Monachi Albanensis, Angli, historia maior, a Guilielmo Conquaestore, ad Ultimum Annum Henrici tertii. Zurich, 1589
A primary source for Shakespeare's King John. See E. A. J. Honigmann, King John (Arden Shakespeare, 1954), pp. xv-xvii.
Folio. Contemporary calf. Gilt title. Cloth ties still attached.
Matthew of Paris was an English Benedictine monk who was a chronicler, artist known for illuminated manuscripts, and a cartographer who was based at St. Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire.
Bookplate of Roger Gates. Early annotations and manuscript underlinings throughout.
The Universal Short Title Catalogue lists only one other known copy, at the Universitätsbibliothek in Basel, Switzerland
Reference: USTC 1788497
ONLY ONE OTHER KNOWN COPY
PARIS, Matthew (c. 1200-1259)
Matthaei Paris, Monachi Albanensis, Angli, historia maior, a Guilielmo Conquaestore, ad Ultimum Annum Henrici tertii. Zurich, 1589
A primary source for Shakespeare's King John. See E. A. J. Honigmann, King John (Arden Shakespeare, 1954), pp. xv-xvii.
Folio. Contemporary calf. Gilt title. Cloth ties still attached.
Matthew of Paris was an English Benedictine monk who was a chronicler, artist known for illuminated manuscripts, and a cartographer who was based at St. Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire.
Bookplate of Roger Gates. Early annotations and manuscript underlinings throughout.
The Universal Short Title Catalogue lists only one other known copy, at the Universitätsbibliothek in Basel, Switzerland
Reference: USTC 1788497
ONLY ONE OTHER KNOWN COPY
PARIS, Matthew (c. 1200-1259)
Matthaei Paris, Monachi Albanensis, Angli, historia maior, a Guilielmo Conquaestore, ad Ultimum Annum Henrici tertii. Zurich, 1589
A primary source for Shakespeare's King John. See E. A. J. Honigmann, King John (Arden Shakespeare, 1954), pp. xv-xvii.
Folio. Contemporary calf. Gilt title. Cloth ties still attached.
Matthew of Paris was an English Benedictine monk who was a chronicler, artist known for illuminated manuscripts, and a cartographer who was based at St. Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire.
Bookplate of Roger Gates. Early annotations and manuscript underlinings throughout.
The Universal Short Title Catalogue lists only one other known copy, at the Universitätsbibliothek in Basel, Switzerland
Reference: USTC 1788497