Archaionomia
Subtitle: siue de priscis Anglorum legibus libri, sermone Anglico, vetustate antiquissimo, aliquot abhinc seculis conscripti, atq[ue] nunc demum, magno iurisperitorum, & amantium antiquitatis omnium commodo, è tenebris in lucem vocati
By: Gulielmo Lambardo interprete. Regum qui has leges scripserunt nomenclationem, et quid præterea accesserit, altera monstrabit pagina
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Ex officina Joannis Daii.
Published: 1568
Place of publication: Londini
Language: lat; ang
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Law, Anglo-Saxon; Early works to 1800; Law; History; Great Britain
Description: "This collection was originally made by Lawrance Nowell, who going abroad in 1657 [i.e. 1557?], left it to Lambarde to translate and publish."--Clarke, Bibliotheca legum.
Notes: Title within an ornamental woodcut border.

First word in title transliterated from original Greek.

"Cum gratia et priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per decemnium." --foot of title page.

Collation: [pi]A-[pi]D⁴ [pi]E² C-Y⁴ 2A-2Q⁴ [$4 (-[pi]AB2, -[pi]D4, -[pi]E2, -C1, -CD4, -M2, -O3, -2M3, -2O3) signed; misprinting 2G4 as 2G3

Errors and irregularities in foliation: leaves 74, 75, 86, 87, 112 and 113 printed 72, 74, 85, 86(?), 11, and 13; leaves 19, 45, 47, 73, 77, 82 and 94 not numbered.

Map on leaf [16] verso, showing England and Wales and portions of Scotland and Normandy.

In Old English, Roman and italic types.

Initials, some historiated; head and tail pieces.

Side notes.

Includes index.

Errata: leaf [18]

Compiled and translated by William Lambarde. "Only the second book to print Old English, this was a pioneering collection and paraphrase in Latin of Anglo-Saxon laws and treaties, together with laws of Edward the Confessor and William I. It was heavily dependent on [Laurence] Nowell's 'improved' translation of the originals." --Oxford DNB.

STC (2nd ed.) 15142

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T379

19041121

The laws from Ine to Canute are in Old English and Latin on opposite leaves; the remaining text is in Latin.

Armorial bookplate with the Dundas' family motto 'Essayez' and the initials DD, probably belonging to Sir David Dundas -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

On title page, signatures of [?] Pinckney and Mitchell King --On verso of title page, ink stamp of the Lenox Library, New York.

Interleaved copy. Title border and decorative initials hand-colored. With a few early marginal annotations in ink. A few words, pencilled later, are in Anglo Saxon on the interleaved sheets.

A few underlinings in ink and pencil.

Copy misbound after gathering F: S4-2G3, G-S3, 2G4-2Q⁴.

Bound in late 19th century black morocco decorated with inside gilt dentelles; marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers; signed (stamped) Curtis Walters.

Bound in 19th century polished calf with gilt fillets; spine title: 'Lambard's Saxon laws'.
Table of contents: title: Leges Inæ regis.; title: Legis Aluredi regis.; title: Fœdus Aluredi, & Guthruni regum.; title: Leges Edouardi regis.; title: Fœdus Edouardi & Guthruni, regum.; title: Leges Æthelstani regis.; title: Leges Edmundi regis.; title: Leges Edgari regis.; title: Leges Ethelredi regis.; title: Senatusconsultum de Monticolis Walliæ.; title: Legis Canuti regis.; title: Leges Gulielmi regis.; title: Leges boni regis Edouardi, quas Gulielmus Bastardus postea confirmault.