Gesta abbatum monasterii Sancti Albani, a Thoma Walsingham, regnante Ricardo Secundo, ejusdem ecclesiæ præcentore, compilata
Thomas Walsingham, Matthew Paris, Henry T. Riley (Editor)
Early works
3 volumes frontispiece (folded facsimiles, volumes 1) 26 cm.
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v. 1. A.D. 793-1290: Introduction. Gesta abbatum monasterii Sancti Albani. <Ms. Cotton. Claudius E. IV.> Sectio prima a Matthæo Parisiensi, pro majori parte, conscripta. Sectio secunda. 1867
v. 2. A.D. 1290-1349: Introduction. Sectio secunda, continuata. Sectio tertia, a Thoma Walsingham conscripta. 1867
v. 3. A.D. 1349-1411: Introduction. Sectio tertia, continuata. Gesta abbatum ... continuata. <Ms. Coll. Corp. Christi, Cant. no. VII> Glossary. Index. 1869
In 3 sections; the first, originally "to a great extent, from the pen of Matthew Paris"; the second, "a compilation by an anonymous hand"; the third, beginning with 1308, "undoubtedly the compilation of Thomas Walsingham". cf. v. 1, p. x
Introductions in English, texts in Latin