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GIBSON, EDMUND, translator and editor. Chronicon saxonicum; seu, Annales rerum in Anglia præcipue gestarum a Christo nato ad annum usque MCLIV. deducti, ac jam demum Latinitate donati. Anglo-Saxon text and Latin translation in parallel columns. Folding engraved map of Great Britain. [12], 244, [36], 64 pages. 4to, needs rebinding; some foxing, generally confined to margins except at beginning and end. Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1692
Second edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, an important source for the history of England from the Norman period through the mid-12th century, and first edition of the translation by Gibson. The original text first appeared in the 1643 edition of the Venerable Bede's Historia ecclesiastica in Anglo-Saxon. Lowndes, page 2196; Potthast, page 290; Wing A3185. With the signature of the mathematician and barrister Francis Maseres (1731-1824) dated 13 February 1760.
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