Peter Langtoft's chronicle

Title

Peter Langtoft's chronicle

Alternative Title

Full title: Peter Langtoft's chronicle, (as illustrated and improv'd by Robert of Brunne) from the death of Cadwalader to the end of K. Edward the first's reign / Transcrib'd, and now first publish'd, from a MS. in the Inner-Temple Library By Thomas Hearne, M.A. : To which are added, besides a glossary and other curious papers, (1) A roll concerning Glastonbury Abbey, being a Survey of all the Estates belonging to that house at the dissolution, taken by King Hen. the Eighth's order and for his use. (2) An account of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalen near Scroby in Nottinghamshire, by John Slacke, Master of that Hospital. (3) Two tracts by an anonymous author, the first relating to conquest in Somersetshire, the second concerning Stone-henge.

Creator

Peter, -1307?

Publisher

Oxford : Printed at the Theater

Date

M. DCC. XXV. [1725]

Format

2 volumes (CCXXXII, 230, [2], 235-722, [2] pages) ; 20 cm (8°)

Description

The pagination and register are continuous, with a divisional titlepage to vol. 2.

With a list of subscribers and a final advertisement leaf.

With a swash 'r' in 'Oxford'.

The tracts, both by the same anonymous author, have caption titles: (a) Claudius Caesar's, and other old Romane emperors, treasure newly found out near conquest in Sommersett, supposed to be the place where their conquest of Britaine was completed / by Philantiquarius Britannicus. -- (b) A fool's bolt soon shott at Stonage.

"The publisher's preface" with appendix, contains several miscellaneous pieces, one of which, "The Armenian nunnery", has reprint of t.p.

Provenance

Bookplate of Beloit College Library in the front of each volume.
Presented by Principal Daniel Woolf [Gift2015]

Contributor

Mannyng, Robert, active 1288-1338. illustrator editor
Slacke, John, active 1635. author
Hearne, Thomas, 1678-1735. editor
Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.) donor
Schulich-Woolf Collection.

Language

English

Identifier

DA229 .P48 1725
Alston, III. 37
ESTC (RLIN), T154205

Files

DA229 P48 1725.jpg

Collection

Citation

Peter, -1307?, “Peter Langtoft's chronicle,” Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://schulichwoolf.omeka.net/items/show/109.