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.
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]
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.
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
Alston, III. 37
ESTC (RLIN), T154205
Relation
Collection
Citation
Peter, -1307?, “Peter Langtoft's chronicle,” Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://schulichwoolf.omeka.net/items/show/109.