Matthaei Paris, monachi Albanensis Angli, Historia major
Subtitle: juxta exemplar Londinense 1571 verbatim recusa, et cum Rogeri Wendoveri, Willielmi Rishangeri, authorisque majori minorique historiis chronicisque mss. in Bibliotheca Regia, Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabrigiae, Cottoniáque fidelitèr collata : huic primùm editioni accesserunt, duorum Offarum Merciorum regum, & viginti trium Abbatum S. Albani vitae : unà cum libro Additamentorum per eundem authorem
By: editore Willielmo Wats S.T.D., 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.; Hodgkinson, Richard, fl. 1624-1668, printer.; Flesher, Miles, d. 1664, printer.; Bee, Cornelius, bookseller.; Sadler, Laurence, d. 1664, bookseller.; Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder.; Huth, Henry, 1815-1878, former owner.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Excudebat Richardus Hodgkinson, sumptibus Cornelii Bee & Laurentii Sadler ...
Published: 1640
Place of publication: Londini
Language: lat
Number of pages: 1009
Subjects: Offa, King of the Mercians, d. 796; Offa, of Angel, 4th cent; St. Albans Abbey -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485; Mercia (Kingdom) -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Matthæi Parisiensis opera; Historia major
Notes: Title page transposed: imprint date appears after Hodgkinson's name.
The Vitae duorum Offarum et viginti trium Abbatum Sancti Albani has special t.p. and separate paging, with imprint: Londini : Excudebat Milo Flesher, prostant apud Cornelium Bee & Laurentium Sadler ..., 1639. The authorship of this work is uncertain; only part, if any, is by Paris. The Additamenta also has a special t.p. with imprint: Londini : Excusum typis Mil. Flesher, 1639.
"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."--Dict. nat. biog.
The continuation ascribed to Rishanger (p. 989-1009) covers the period from 1259 to 1273.
Error in paging: 2nd group of paging, 737-738 omitted.
Signatures: pi² chi1 A⁶ b-c⁶ d⁴ B-4Q⁶ 4R² 4S-4X⁶ 4Y² ⁵A-⁵C⁶ ⁵D⁸ 2chi1, *⁶ A-R⁶ S⁸ T-Y⁶ ²Y⁶ 2Y⁶ 3Y⁶ 4Y⁴ Z⁶ 3chi1.
Title page printed in red and black.
Errata leaves: 2chi1 and 3chi1.
LC copy has signed binding: Frs. Bedford, 1857. Has inscription: John Burns, July 7, 1916.
LC copy has bookplate: Ex musaeo Huthii.
STC (2nd ed.) 19210
Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson 343