Vetusta monumenta
Subtitle: quae ad rerum britannicarum memoriam conseruandam
By: Societas antiquariorum Londini sumptu suo edenda curavit
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1767
Place of publication: London
Language: lat
Subjects: Westminster Abbey
Notes: Vol. 2 contains 1 pl. not called for in the "Table of plates".

Vol. 2 includes: An account of some ancient monuments in Westminster abbey. By Sir Joseph Ayloffe, bart. ... London, 1780.

Vol. 3 includes: An account of the seals of the kings, royal boroughs, and magnates of Scotland. By Thomas Astle. Vol. 4, An index to the first three volumes of Vetusta monumenta. [By Nicholas Carlisle] London, 1810.

Vol. 5 includes: Some account of the abbey church of Tewkesbury ... By Thomas Amyot.--Notes and remarks, by ... William Capon, to accompany his plan of the ancient palace of Westminster.--Some remarks on the pillar or obelisk at Forres, Morayshire, called Sueno's stone. [By J.H. Markland].--Observations on several ancient swords of state belonging to the earldom of Chester: in a letter from George Ormerod.--Some account of the ancient and present state of the abbey of St. Mary, York ... By the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved.--Observations on the church of St. Mary le Bow, chiefly relating to its original structure: By George Gwilt.--Memoir, on the antiquities discovered by Edward Rudge ... in excavating the ruins of the abbey church of Evesham; by Edward John Rudge.

Vol. 6 includes: Remarks on the Louterell Psalter, an illuminated manuscript of the first part of the fourteenth century. Communicated by John Gage Rokewode.--A memoir on the Painted chamber in the palace at Westminster ... by John Gage Rokewode.--Notice of a drawing in the Royal library at Windsor, representing the chair of St. Peter at Rome. By Arthur Ashpitel.--Remarks on illuminations in some Irish Biblical manuscripts. Communicated by the Rev. James Henthorn Todd.--Two memoirs on the "Evangelia quatuor", once belonging to the abbey of Lindau, and now to the Earl of Ashburnham: I. The golden jewelled covers, by Alexander Nesbit. II. The ms. text by Edward Maunde Thompson.

This work was commenced in 1718, the plates of vol. 1 bearing dates from 1718-1747. Vol. 3 has imprint "1796. Reprinted 1799." Vol. 1-3 are stamped with the arms of the Duke of Roxburghe and contain the book-plate of Henry Godwin.

Single sheet (2 p.) from volume 2 describing plates 21 and 22, of a Roman statue of Bacchus owned by Thomas Hollis and displayed by him to the Society of Antiquaries on Feb. 2, 1755 (see Society's minutes); text begins: [1] Explicatio tabvlae XXi. et XXII. Vol. II; inscribed, in Hollis' hand, to Harvard College, with the phrase on line three of the text, describing Hollis as "vir cultioribus literis promovendis egregie natus", inked out by Hollis.