Title: Ælfredi regis res gestæ
Description: <div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;background:#FFFFFF;" xml:lang="fr">Folio. pp. [10], 40, [8].
Signatures: [</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;background:#FFFFFF;">π</span><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;background:#FFFFFF;" xml:lang="fr">]A⁴ [par.]1 A-F⁴. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;background:#FFFFFF;">Morocco,
tooled and gilded. Title within woodcut borders. Engraved initials,
tail-pieces. Printed annotations. Imprint from STC. Bound as issued with Thomas
Walsingham's Historia Brevis Thomæ Walfingham, ab Edwardo primo, ad Henricum
quintum, London, Binneman typographum, 1574;
and Ypodigma Neustriæ vel Normanniæ, per Thomam de Walsingham. Ab irruptione
Normannorum usq[ue]; ad annum 6. Regni Henrici quinti, London, in ædibus
Iohannis Day, 1574 (preliminaries of the
Historia misbound at beginning of volume). Armoried plate of Edward Hailstone.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></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;color:#2C2C2C;">The first printed edition of John Asser’s life
of his supposed contemporary King Alfred, edited by Archbishop Parker and his
assistants from a now-perished Cottonian manuscript, then in the Archbishop’s
possession, that may have been textually ‘manipulated’ by Parker and his
scholarly entourage. The work is now widely considered a confection produced a
century after Alfred’s death. It also includes the Will of Alfred and the
preface to his translation of St. Gregory's Pastoral care. The Res gestae and
the Will are in Latin, printed in Anglo-Saxon characters, the preface to the
Pastoral care is in Anglo-Saxon with an interlinear translation in English,
followed by a Latin translation. For the probable manipulation of the text, see
A Smyth (ed.), The medieval Life of King Alfred the Great. A Translation and
Commentary on the Text attributed to Asser, Basingstoke, 2002, pp. 84–88. See
also W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, &amp; K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title
Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, &amp; Ireland, and of English
Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 3 vols, London, 1976–91 (2nd ed.), 863.</span></p><p></p>

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