Opus nouum. Gildas Britannus monachus cui sapientis cognome[n]tu[m] est inditum, de calamitate excidio, & conquestu Britanniae, quam Angliam nunc uocant, author uetustus a multis diu desyderatus, & nuper in gratiam D. Cuthberti Tonstalli, Londinen[sis] Episcopi formulis excusus. : In hoc authore, preter multiplicem hic illic historiaru[m] interpositionem, uidere licet grauissimas illius temporis regu[m], pri[n]cipu[m], ducu[m], episcoporum ... &c. correptio[n]es ...
Gildas,516?-570?
Vergil, Polydore,1470?-1555.
Ridley, R.
Campbell, Archibald,-1744,former owner.StEdNL: Jolly.49
Scottish Episcopal Church.Diocese of Edinburgh.Library,former owner.StEdNL: Jolly.49
[Antwerp? : Printed by Christoffel van Ruremund?,
1525?]
An edition of "Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae".
Edited by Polydore Vergil and R. Ridley.
Imprint from STC; "the Ruremond involved may have been Hans". Dedication dated April 1525.
Signatures: A-E¹ F.
Variant 1: title page has "PRFTER .. Ep̄orum". Variant 2: title page has "PRETER .. Ep̄orum".
Not an STC book; for more details see "The Library", ser. 6, vol. 1 (1979), p. 355-360.
ESTC
STC (2nd ed.)
Bookplate of Archibald Campbell on the front pastedown, covered by the bookplate "Scottish Episcopal Church Library Edinburgh". Manuscript inscription on the recto of the front free endpaper "N: p2 B 6d Ar Campbell".