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La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei : the Life of St. Edward the confessor, reproduced in facsimile from the unique manuscript (Cambridge University Library Ee.3.59) together with some pages of the manuscript of the life of St. Alban at Trinity College, Dublin / with an introduction by M. R. James. Printed for the Roxburghe Club: PB 1920.1

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La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei : the Life of St. Edward the confessor, reproduced in facsimile from the unique manuscript (Cambridge University Library Ee.3.59) together with some pages of the manuscript of the life of St. Alban at Trinity College, Dublin / with an introduction by M. R. James. Printed for the Roxburghe Club

Maker(s)

Editor: James, Montague Rhodes, Dr
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Hall, Frederick (printer)
Printer: Oxford University Press
Printer: Emery Walker Limited

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Description

"The illustrations are, of course, the point of principal interest ... " the text, "a French versification of the Latin prose life of St. Edward by Aibred of Rievauix," which was little more than an abridgment and paraphrase of the life by Osbert of Clare, was printed in full by Dr. Luard in 1858 in the Rolls series of Chronicles and memorials, with a literal translation. The present editor believes the manuscript to be the "work of Matthew Paris, carried out at St. Alban's Abbey under his supervision, not by his own hand." cf. Pref.
Sir Edward Maundi Thompson's copy (name in red in list of members of Roxburghe Club)

74, [1] p., facsim.: 1 l., [65] p., 10 l. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Place(s) associated

  • Oxford

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1927) by Holliday, J. R.

Dating

Production date: AD 1920

Note

Plates by Emery Walker Limited

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 1920.1
Primary reference Number: 118403
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 14 January 2014 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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