Matthæi Paris monachi albanensis angli, Historia major
Subtitle: juxta exemplar Londinense 1640, verbatim recusa : et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri, authorisque majori minorique historiis, chronicisque mss, in Bibliotheca Regia, Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabrigiæ, Cottoniaque, fideliter collata : huic editioni accesserunt, Duorum Offarum Merciorum regum & viginti trium abbatum S. Albani vitæ : una cum libro Additamentorum
By: per eundem authorem ; editore Willielmo Wats ... qui & variantes lectiones, adversaria, vocúmque barbararum glossarium, adjecit ; simul cum rerum, nominumque, indicibus locupletissimis.
Contributors: Roger, of Wendover, d. 1236.; Rishanger, William, 1250?-1312.; Watts, William, 1590?-1649.; Ellis, Henry (autograph)
Publisher: Impensis A. Mearne, T. Dring, B. Tooke, T. Sawbridge, & G. Wells
Published: 1684
Place of publication: Londini
Language: lat
Number of pages: 1175
Subjects: Offa, -- of Angel, -- 4th cent.; Offa, -- King of the Mercians, -- d. 796.; St. Albans Abbey -- History.; Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485.
Other titles: Historia major
Notes: The Vitæ duorum Offarum has special t.p. with imprint: Londini, 1683.  The authorship of Vitæ duorum Offarum is uncertain; only part, if any, is by Paris.  Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints.

"A composite chronicle, containing the St. Albans compilation to the end of 1188, Roger de Wendover's chronicle, 1189-1235, both revised by Paris, and his own work from 1235 to 1259."  Cf. DNB.

Includes indexes.

Include bibliographical references.

Wing P359.

Fisher Knox copy: With the autographs of Henry Ellis, 1806 on t.p., and of E. Thomas, 1775 on t.p. of the Vitæ duorum Offarum.