Title: Pontici Virunnii viri doctissimi Britannicæ historiæ libri sex : magna et fide et diligentia conscripti : Ad Britannici codicis fidem correcti, & ab infinitis mendis liberati : quibus præfixus est catalogus regum Britanniæ
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span class="marclinepart"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">Full title</span></b></span><span class="marclinepart"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">: Pontici Virunnii viri doctissimi
Britannicæ historiæ libri sex</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">: <span class="marclinepart">magna et fide et diligentia conscripti: Ad
Britannici codicis fidem correcti, & ab infinitis mendis liberati: quibus
præfixus est catalogus regum Britanniæ: </span></span><span class="stmt-resp"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">per Davidem Povelum, S. Theolog. professorem</span></span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span lang="nl-be" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="nl-be">8vo. pp. [<span style="color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;">14], 284, [6]
(last blank), [4] (blank). </span></span><span class="marclinepart"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">Signatures: A-T⁸. </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Modern boards;
contemporary annotations, including a manuscript index (4 pp.) at the end. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;">Pp. 85-88 crossed out
in ink.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"> </span><span class="marclinepart"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">Engraved
vignette on title page, reproduced on title page of each part. Engraved
initials, head- and tailpieces.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"></span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">An abridgement of Geoffrey
of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae (ca. 1135), an influential patriotic
medieval forgery in which Geoffrey asserts that his work was but a translation
of a liber vetustissimus or “very ancient book” written originally in the
“British tongue.” See the 2007 edition by M. D. Reeve, Woodbridge, prologus,
4–5.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Together with Giraldus
Cambrensis, Itinerarium Cambriae and Cambriae descriptio, and as such the
earliest edition of Geoffrey printed in England. <span class="marclinepart"><span style="color:#212529;">"Itinerarium Cambriae" and "Cambriae
descriptio", both by Giraldus Cambrensis. Each work has separate dated
title page; pagination and register are continuous.</span></span></span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">See W. A. Jackson, F. S.
Ferguson, & K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in
England, Scotland, & Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad,
1475–1640. 3 vols. London, 1976–91 (2<sup>nd</sup> ed.), 20109; J. Lynch,
“England’s Ireland, Ireland’s England. William Henry Ireland’s National
Offense,” in W. Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), <span class="marclinepart"><span style="color:#212529;">Literary forgery in early
modern Europe, 1450-1800, </span><span style="color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;">Baltimore,
</span><span style="color:#212529;">2018, </span></span>p.
258.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;"></span></p><p></p>

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record.</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"></span></p><p></p>