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Opus nouum. Gildas Britannus monachus cui sapientis cognome[n]tu[m] est inditum De calamitate excidio & conquestu Britanniæ, quam Angliam nunc vocant ... excusus.

Accession number
PML 75604
Creator
Gildas, 516?-570?
Published
[Antwerp : Christoffel van Ruremunde, 1526 or 1527?]
Notes
For discussion of imprint, see: Rhodes, D.E. "First edition of Gildas," Library, 6th Series, I (Dec. 1979):355-360. Other sources give London, Paris, and France as place of publication.
Preface, dated April 1525, signed by Polydore Vergil.
Printed with 85 mm italic types, not in Isaac or Vervliet; with woodcut initials.
Description
[44] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Binding
Brown pebbled morocco.
Classification
Department