Opus novum
Subtitle: Gildas Britannus monachus ... de calamitate excidio, & conquestu Britanniae, quam Angliam nunc vocant author uetustus a multis diu desyderatus, & nuper in gratiam D. Cuthberti Tonstalli, Londinen Episcopi formulis excusus ...
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 101:09
Publisher: Printed by Christoffel van Ruremund?, 1525?
Published: 1525
Place of publication: Antwerp?
Language: lat
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: History
Other titles: De calamitate, excidio, & conquestu Britanniae.
Work titles: Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae
Notes: In part an informal chronicle of the Teutonic post-Roman invasion of England.

Ed. by Polydore Vergil from two mss., one of which was lent him by Bishop Tunstall, with the assistance of Robert Ridley of the Bishop's staff; cf. preface and DNB (Vergil, Polydore).

Imprint from STC (2nd ed).

Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁴.

"Not an STC book; for more details see "The Library", ser. 6, vol. 1(1979), pp. 355-360. It is possible that the Ruremond involved may have been Hans."--STC (2nd ed.)

Printed in italic type, with marginal notes.

STC (2nd ed.) 11892

BM, 86:14