The flowers of history
Subtitle: especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain. From the beginning of the world to the year 1307
By: Collected by Matthew of Westminster. Tr. from the original by C.D. Yonge ...
Series: Bohn's antiquarian library; Bohn's antiquarian library
Publisher: H. G. Bohn
Published: 1853
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource],
Subjects: Ancient History; History
Notes: The part covering the period from A. D. 1259 to A. D. 1307 is largely a contemporaneous record.

Matthew of Westminster, "an imaginary name given to a supposed author of a chronicle called 'Flores historiarum'; it is affixed to a manuscript of the 'Flores', probably written early in the fifteenth century ...

The 'Flores' was partly compiled and partly composed by varous writers at St. Alans and Westminster",--Dict. nat. biog.

For a history of the work, cf. Dict. nat. biog. and the authorities to which it refers.

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