Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia siue Disceptatio historica, de antiquitate ordinis congregationisque monachorum nigrorum S. Benedicti in regno Angliae
Subtitle: in qua demonstratur S. Gregorium, eius nationis Apostolum, fuisse Benedictinum; ostenditur etiam obiter quanto numero, quibusque temporibus, alij ordines religiosorum, in eodem regno coeperint agnosci. Cum appendice copiosa instrumentorum venerandae vetustatis, è quibus fides antiquitatum Benedictinarum demonstratur: in ijs praecipuè inueniet lector religiosus, concordiam regularem S. Dunstani; & statuta monastica D. Lanfranci; & aliquot acta priscorum capitulorum generalium congregationis ordinisque eiusdem in Anglia: antehac nunquam typis excusa. Iussu patrum eiusdem congregationis, in capitulo generali anni 1625. congregatorum, edita
By: opera et industria R. P. Clementis Reyneri ...
Contributors: Reyner, Clement, 1589-1651; Jones, John, 1574 or 1575-1636
Publisher: Ex officinâ Laurentii Kellami ...
Published: 1626
Place of publication: Duaci
Language: lat
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: History; Benedictines
Notes: Added engraved t.p. is the leaf of plates in collation.

Appendix has special t.p. which reads: "Appendix. Continens authentica instrumenta, et scripturas originales quae in praecedente opere passim citantur ... omnia ex archiuis, & Mss. codicibus veterrimis, summa fide repraesentata ..."

"The materials for this work were collected by Father David Baker. His friend, Father John Jones ... alias Leander a s. Martino, reduced the mass of materials into respectable latinity, and they left Reyner to edit the work"--DNB XVI, p. 924.

Numerous errors in pagination.

In the third sequence of alphabetical signatures leaf A2 is signed A and A5 is signed A4; in the same sequence leaves C2 and K2 are missigned B2 and I2.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials; printer's device on special t.p. to appendix.

Errata on p. [1] following initial 22 p. section.