Archaionomia, sive De priscis Anglorum legibus libri, : sermone Anglico, vetustate antiquissimo, aliquot ab hinc seculis conscripti, nunc demum, magno jurisperitorum, & amantium antiquitatis omnium commodo, ètenebris in lucem vocati. Gulielmo Lambardo interprete. Sexcentis in locis à libro ipsius castigata, quo pro exemplari utimur; cum multis aliis additionibus. Accessere in hac nostra ultima editione Leges Henrici primi nunc primùm editae, ex manuscripto in fisco regis habito: unà cum glossario earum antiquo ex manuscripto Codice olim S. Augustini Doroborniensis. Regum qui has Leges scripserunt nomenclationem, & quid praeterea tum primùm ab illo, & nunc denuo à nobis accesserit, subsequens monstrabit pagina.
Lambarde, William,1536-1601.
Nowell, Laurence,-1576.
Twysden, Roger,Sir,1597-1672.
Wheelocke, Abraham,1593-1653.
Blair,active 18th century,former owner.StEdNL
Cantabrigiae : : Ex officina Rogeri Daniel, celeberrimae Academiae typographi. MDCXLIIII. Prostant Londini apud Cornelium Bee, sub Insignibus Regalibus, in vico vulgo vocato Little-Britain.,
[1644]
First word in title transliterated from Greek.
The laws from Ina to Canute, inclusive, and Canones Aelfrici have parallel texts in Anglo-Saxon and Latin.
This collection was originally made by Lawrence Nowell, who going abroad in 1657 [i.e. 1557?], left it to Lambarde to translate and publish--Clarke, Bibliotheca legum.
The Praefatio to Leges Willielmi Conquestoris et Henrici fillii ejus signed: Roger Twysden.
Ad lectorem signed: Abrahamus Whelocus.
Title page printed in red and black.
Errata: page [9] at end.
Cutting from sale catalogue description pasted onto front pastedown.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Marginal notes.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
ESTC
18th century ink inscription at head of recto of front flyleaf: [?] Blair.
Law, Anglo-Saxon