Accession number
PML 2972
Creator
Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259.
Published
Londini : Ex officina Thomæ Marshij, [June 2] 1570.
Notes
Edited by Matthew Parker, NUC pre-1956, 441:285.
For the recent theory of authorship cf. Richard Vaughan, Matthew Paris (1958), for the earlier theory cf. DNB, 15:207-13, 20:1268.
Includes index.
Matthew of Westminster is an imaginary name given to a supposed author of a chronicle called "Flores historiarum"; it is affixed to a manuscript of the "Flores," probably written early in the 15th century ... The "Flores" was partly compiled and partly composed by various writers at St. Albans and Westminster. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.
Quotation from Palingenio Stellato at head of title.
The part covering the period from 1259 A.D. to 1307 A.D. is largely a contemporaneous record.
The text covering the period to 1259 is based on the author's Chronica majora; the text covering the period 1259-1307 was partly compiled and partly composed by various writers at St. Albans and Westminster.
Title page within rule border and compartment (McKerrow & Ferguson, no. 132).
For the recent theory of authorship cf. Richard Vaughan, Matthew Paris (1958), for the earlier theory cf. DNB, 15:207-13, 20:1268.
Includes index.
Matthew of Westminster is an imaginary name given to a supposed author of a chronicle called "Flores historiarum"; it is affixed to a manuscript of the "Flores," probably written early in the 15th century ... The "Flores" was partly compiled and partly composed by various writers at St. Albans and Westminster. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.
Quotation from Palingenio Stellato at head of title.
The part covering the period from 1259 A.D. to 1307 A.D. is largely a contemporaneous record.
The text covering the period to 1259 is based on the author's Chronica majora; the text covering the period 1259-1307 was partly compiled and partly composed by various writers at St. Albans and Westminster.
Title page within rule border and compartment (McKerrow & Ferguson, no. 132).
Description
5 p. l., 440, 466 p. ; 29 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Coloured drawings from nature added in blank space at end of preface, including butterflies, fruit, flowers and a shrimp (shrimp dated 1573).
Provenance
Toovey collection ; reputedly the Archbishop's own copy with his arms illuminated in the first p. of the text, and his name on the fore-edge.
Binding
Contemporary calf, stamped in gold (arranged by Matthew Parker). Previously had clasps or ties, lacking.
Classification
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