Polydori Vergilii urbinatis Anglicæ historiæ libri XXVI
Publisher: Apud Io. Bebelius Johann Bebel
Published: 1534
Place of publication: Basel
Language: lat
Number of pages: 670
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Folio. pp. [2], 600 [i.e. 610],
[48]. Signatures: a-z6, A-Z6, Aa-Ii6. Modern calf. Ownership inscriptions of
Henricus Goosens, William Wavell, William Brattir, and Hugo Gray [?] Frenibales
[?]. Verse by Simon Grynaeus on title page. Work dedicated to Henry VIII.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">The first edition of Vergil’s
Anglicae historiae libri XXVI, which includes his refutation of Geoffrey of
Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae (ca. 1135), an influential patriotic
medieval forgery. H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of
Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, V 446.</span></p><p></p>

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