An account of Richard of Cirencester, Monk of Westminster, and of his Works
Subtitle: with his Antient Map of Roman Brittain; and the Itinerary therof. Read at the Antiquarian Society, March 18, 1756. By William Stukeley, M.D. Rector of Saint George [...]
Published: 1757
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">Full
title:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);"> An account of Richard of Cirencester, Monk of
Westminster, and of his Works: with his Antient Map of Roman Brittain; and the Itinerary
therof. Read at the Antiquarian Society, March 18, 1756. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);">By William Stukeley, M.D.
Rector of Saint George, Queen-Square, Fellow of the College of Physicians, of
the Royal and Antiquarian Societies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">4to. ff. [3] (2 blank), pp. 94, ff. [2] of plates (1 folded), f.
[1] (blank). Facsimile, map. Signatures: A-M4. Folded map signed: "Ricardi
Tabulam Wm. Stukeley ad Normani Geographicā delin." The final leaf
contains a facsimile of part of an original MS. Head- and tailpieces;
initial.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">

<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">A discussion of De situ
Britanniae, regarded by the archaeological enthusiast Stukeley (1687-1765)
as the genuine work of the 14th-century monk Richard of Cirencester, but
actually a literary forgery by Charles Julius Bertram
(1723-1765). Stukeley published the work, a paper which he had read to the
Society of Antiquaries, with a huge folding map, Stukeley’s own version of the
(imaginary) one Bertram had sent him ‘from memory’. Two presentation copies: 1)
Calf; inscribed ‘Museo Britannico D.D. Auctor’, but apparently never
accessioned or released by the British Museum. Signature from 1866 on first
blank; and 2) Mottled calf, inscribed by Stukeley to Thomas Clark; Macclesfield
‘North Library’ bookplate. See also W. Stukeley, Itinerarium curiosum; or, An
account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art,
observed in travels through Great Britain. 2nd ed., with large additions.
London: Baker and Leigh, 1776 (Bib# 1031696/Fr# 700 in this collection).</span><br /></p><p></p>

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