Flores historiarum
By: per Matthaeum Westmonasteriensem collecti ; praecipue de rebus Britannicis: ab exordio mundi vsque ad Annum Domini MCCCVII. Et Chronicon ex chronicis, ab initio mundi vsque ad Annum Domini MCXVIII.deductum / auctore Florentio Wigorniensi monacho. Cui accessit Continuatio vsque ad Annum Christi MCXLI. per quendam eiusdem coenobii eruditum ....
Contributors: Florence, of Worcester, d. 1118.; John, of Worcester, 12th cent.; Marianus, Scotus, 1028-1082?
Publisher: Typis Wechelianis apud C. Marnium & heredes I. Aubrij
Published: 1601
Place of publication: Francofurti
Language: lat
Number of pages: 696
Subjects: History, Ancient.; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485 -- Sources.
Other titles: Chronicon ex chronicis.
Notes: Title vignette (Wechel device) repeated on verso of last leaf.

"Chronicon ex chronicis" has special t.p., without place or publisher.

The text covering the period to 1259 is based on the author's Chronica majora; the text covering the period 1259-1307 was 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.

First printed in 1567; this ed. is a reprint of the 1570 ed.

"Chronicon ex chronicis", based on the work of Marianus Scotus, with its "Continuatio", first printed in 1592; reprinted "faultily" in the present ed.

Includes index.