Anglia sacra
Title
Anglia sacra
Alternative Title
Full title: Anglia sacra, sive Collectio historiarum, partim antiquitas, partim recenter scriptarum, de archiepiscopis & episcopis Angliae, a prima fidei christianae susceptione ad annum MDXL. nunc primum in lucem editarum.
Creator
Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695
Publisher
Londini, impensis Richardi Chiswel, ad insigne rosae coronatae in coemeterio s. Pauli
Date
MDCXCI 1691
Format
2 v. front. 33 cm.
Description
Title of v. 2 varies slightly. Frontispiece represents armorial bearings of the archbishopric of Canterbury. Title in red and black. Title vignettes (printer's device). Dedicatory epistle signed: Hen. Wharton. Contents: pars. 1. De archiepiscopis & episcopis ecclesiarum cathedralium, quas monachi possederunt.-pars. 2. Plures antiquas de Vitis & rebus gestis praesulum anglicorum historias sine certo ordine congestas complexa.
Volume 1: lviii, [2], 805, [11] p.; volume 2: [8], xxxiv, [2], 706, [2] p.
Dedicatory epistle signed: Hen. Wharton.
Arms of the archbishopric of Canterbury on verso of half title, volume 1.
Title pages printed in red and black; bookseller's device on both title pages.
Each section has divisional title page.
Includes indexes.
Errata: volume 1: p. [11], fourth grouping.
Bookseller's advertisement: volume 2, p. [1], fifth grouping
(From title pages) Pars prima : de archiepiscopis & episcopis ecclesiarum cathedralium, quas monachi possederunt -- Pars secunda : plures antiquas de vitis & rebus gestis praesulum Anglicorum historias sine certo ordine congestas complexa.
Volume 1: lviii, [2], 805, [11] p.; volume 2: [8], xxxiv, [2], 706, [2] p.
Dedicatory epistle signed: Hen. Wharton.
Arms of the archbishopric of Canterbury on verso of half title, volume 1.
Title pages printed in red and black; bookseller's device on both title pages.
Each section has divisional title page.
Includes indexes.
Errata: volume 1: p. [11], fourth grouping.
Bookseller's advertisement: volume 2, p. [1], fifth grouping
(From title pages) Pars prima : de archiepiscopis & episcopis ecclesiarum cathedralium, quas monachi possederunt -- Pars secunda : plures antiquas de vitis & rebus gestis praesulum Anglicorum historias sine certo ordine congestas complexa.
Provenance
Copy 2 Bookplate: William Stubbs
Copy 2 Letter to William Stubbs (Rev. W. Stubbs) tipped in on flyleaf: Romford Feb. 16, 1866 My dear Stubbs, Will you do me the favour of [..] for me at S. [Audolus'] re Monday [..] in Holy Week, and will you kindly let me know your subject. It is an age since we have met. Mrs. Skilton sends her kind regards to Mrs. Stubbs. From yours sincerely W.F. Skilton.
Copy 2 Note in an early hand
Copy 2 Letter to William Stubbs (Rev. W. Stubbs) tipped in on flyleaf: Romford Feb. 16, 1866 My dear Stubbs, Will you do me the favour of [..] for me at S. [Audolus'] re Monday [..] in Holy Week, and will you kindly let me know your subject. It is an age since we have met. Mrs. Skilton sends her kind regards to Mrs. Stubbs. From yours sincerely W.F. Skilton.
Copy 2 Note in an early hand
Contributor
Gift of Daniel Woolf.
Language
Latin
Identifier
Dated 1691 .W5,
Sowerby, E. M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
English Short Title Catalogue R4174
Sowerby, E. M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
English Short Title Catalogue R4174
Files
Collection
Citation
Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695, “Anglia sacra,” Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection, accessed May 3, 2024, https://schulichwoolf.omeka.net/items/show/1044.