The flowers of history, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain
Subtitle: from the beginning of the world to the year 1307.
By: Collected by Matthew of Westminster. Translated from the original by C. D. Yonge.
Edition: [1st AMS ed.] London, H. G. Bohn, 1853.
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: History, Ancient.; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485.
Notes: Translation of Flores historiarum.
Original ed. issued in series: Bohn's antiquarian library.
Text covering the period to 1259 is based on the author's Chronica majora; the text covering the period 1259-1307 was partly compiled and partly composed by various writers at St. Albans and Westminster.
For the most recent theory of authorship cf. Richard Vaughan. Matthew Paris. 1958; for the older theory cf. Dict. nat. biog.