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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. Anglo-Saxon text and Latin translation in parallel columns. Folding engraved map of Great Britain. [12], 244, [36]; 64 pages. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 238x188 mm, contemporary sheep, worn and brittle, spine darkened, ends damaged, front joint cracked, cords intact; occasional light marginal soiling, scattered marginalia, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession number on next leaf, short clean tear in inner corner of map, light marginal dampstaining at 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 Bede's Historia ecclesiastica in Anglo-Saxon. Potthast, page 290; Wing A3185.
