Matthaei 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 Cantabrigiae, Cottoniáque, fidelitèr collata. Huic primùm editioni accesserunt, duorum Offarum Merciorum Regum; & viginti trium abbatum S. Albani vitae: 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.

Chronica majora. Abridgement
Flores historiarum.
Vitae duorum Offarum.

Londini : Excudebat Richardus Hodgkinson [and Miles Flesher], 1640. Sumptibus Cornelii Bee & Laurentii Sadler, in vico vulgaritèr dicto Little Britaine, [1640]

[50], 1,009, [125], 310, [14] p. : port. (engraving) ; (fol.)

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).

The "Historia major" is edited by Matthew Parker.

Title page in red and black.

First leaf bears half-title, "Matthaei Parisiensis opera.", on recto and portrait of the author, signed "T. Cecill sculp:", on verso.

"Vitae 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. ..". "Matthaei Parisiensis additamenta" has separate title page dated 1639 with Flesher's name in imprint; pagination and register are continuous.

Signatures: pi² A⁶(A5+chi¹) b-c⁶ d⁴ B-4Q⁶ 4R² 4S-4X⁶ 4Y², ²A-C⁶, ²D⁸; *⁶ A-R⁶ S⁸ T-Y⁶ y⁶ 2y⁶ 3y⁶ 4y⁴ Z⁶ ²chi1.

Includes indexes.

Rpm 12/05/96
Signatures from DFo.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 19210
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S115363

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 19210 copy 1

HH159/10. Lacking errata leaf. Provenance: Harmsworth copy

STC 19210 copy 2

5559. pi1 lacking; t.p. backed; A2 remargined; A1 bound before A6. Final errata leaf of pt. 2 lacking