Vetvsta monvmenta
Subtitle: qvae ad rervm britannicarvm memoriam conservandam Societas antiqvariorum Londini svmptv svo edenda cvravit ...
Contributors: Carlisle, Nicholas, 1771-1847
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1747
Place of publication: Londini
Language: eng
Subjects: Antiquities; Seals (Numismatics); Westminster Abbey
Notes: Vol. 2 includes: An account of some ancient monuments in Westminster Abbey. By Sir Joseph Ayloffe, bart. ... London, 1780.

Vol. 3 includes: An account of the seals of the kings, royal boroughs, and magnates of Scotland. By Thomas Astle. Also, An index to the first three volumes of Vetusta monumenta. By Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1810.

Vol. 5 includes: Some account of the abbey church of Tewkesbury ... By Thomas Amyot.--Notes and remarks, by ... William Capon, to accompany his plan of the ancient palace of Westminster.--Some remarks on the pillar or obelisk at Forres, Morayshire, called Sueno's stone. By J. H. Markland.--Observations on several ancient swords of state belonging to the earldom of Chester: in a letter from George Ormerod.--Some account of the ancient and present state of the abbey of St. Mary, York ... By the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved.--Observations on the church of St. Mary le Bow, chiefly relating to its original structure: by George Gwilt.--Memoir, on the antiquities discovered by Edward Rudge ... in excavating the ruins of the abbey church of Evesham: by Edward John Rudge.

Vol. 6 includes: Remarks on the Louterell Psalter, an illuminated manuscript of the first part of the fourteenth century. Communicated by John Gage Rokewode.--A memoir on the Painted chamber in the palace at Westminster ... by John Gage Rokewode.--Notice of a drawing in the Royal library at Windsor, representing the chair of St. Peter at Rome. By Arthur Ashpitel.--Remarks on illuminations in some Irish Biblical manuscripts. Communicated by the Rev. James Henthorn Todd. Two memoirs on the "Evangelia quatuor," once belonging to the abbey of Lindau, and now to the Earl of Ashburnham: I. The golden jewelled covers, by Alexander Nesbitt. II. The ms. text, by Edward Maunde Thompson.

Vol. 7, pt. I. The tomb of an archbishop recently opened in the cathedral church of Canterbury, by W. H. St. John Hope. 1893. pt. II. The achievements of Edward, prince of Wales (The "Black Prince") in the cathedral church of Canterbury, by W. H. St. John Hope. 1895. pt. III. The royal gold cup of the kings of France and England now preserved in the British museum, described by C. H. Read. 1904. pt. IV. The obituary roll of John Islip, abbot of Westminster, 1500-1532; with notes on other English obituary rolls, by W. H. St. John Hope. 1906.