Accession number
PML 62096.1
Creator
Asser, John, -909.
Published
[London : John Day, 1574]
Credit line
Gift; Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Morgan II; 1971.
Notes
Also contains: Gregorius I. [Pastorale: Anglo-Saxon] The preface only, of King Alfred the ...
Edited by Matthew Parker.
Imprint from STC.
Includes also the Will of Alfred and the preface to his translation of St. Gregory's Pastoral care. The Res gestae and the Will are in Latin printed in Anglo-Saxon characters, the preface to the Pastoral care is in Anglo-Saxon with an interlinear translation in English, followed by a Latin translation.
Leaf D3 incorrectly signed as D4.
Preliminary gathering [par.] signed as A2, [par.]3, A4, [par.]1.
Published by Matthew Parker, with the Historia Brevis Thomae Walsingham and the Ypodigma Neustriae per T. Walsingham. See Lowndes, p. 2826.
Title within ornamental border (McKerrow & Ferguson 99); head-piece; tail-pieces; initials, one historiated.
With manuscript notes.
Edited by Matthew Parker.
Imprint from STC.
Includes also the Will of Alfred and the preface to his translation of St. Gregory's Pastoral care. The Res gestae and the Will are in Latin printed in Anglo-Saxon characters, the preface to the Pastoral care is in Anglo-Saxon with an interlinear translation in English, followed by a Latin translation.
Leaf D3 incorrectly signed as D4.
Preliminary gathering [par.] signed as A2, [par.]3, A4, [par.]1.
Published by Matthew Parker, with the Historia Brevis Thomae Walsingham and the Ypodigma Neustriae per T. Walsingham. See Lowndes, p. 2826.
Title within ornamental border (McKerrow & Ferguson 99); head-piece; tail-pieces; initials, one historiated.
With manuscript notes.
Description
[10], 40, [8] p. ; 30 cm
Provenance
Signature and motto of Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester, dated 1600, on t.p. Charles Vere Dashwood, Esq., armorial bookplate.
Binding
Brown calf, with gilt arms of Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester.
Classification
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Department