Opus nouum. Gildas Britannus monachus cui sapientis cognome[n]tu[m] est inditum, de calamitate excidio, & conquestu Britanniæ, quam Angliam nunc uocant : author uetustus a multis diu desyderatus, & nuper in gratiam D. Cuthberti Tonstalli, Londinen[sis] Episcopi formulis excusus. In hoc authore, preter multiplicem hic illic historiaru[m] interpositionem, uidere licet grauissimas illius temporis regu[m], pri[n]cipu[m], ducu[m], episcoporum ... &c. correptio[n]es ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gildas, 516?-570?
Other Authors: Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555, Ridley, R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Latin
Published: [Antwerp? : Printed by Christoffel van Ruremund?, 1525?]
Series:Early English books online.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Description
Item Description:An edition of "Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae".
Edited by Polydore Vergil and R. Ridley.
Imprint from STC; "the Ruremond involved may have been Hans". Dedication dated April 1525.
Signatures: A-E F⁴.
Variant 1: title page has "PRFTER .. Ep̄orum". Variant 2: title page has "PRETER .. Ep̄orum".
Not an STC book; for more details see "The Library", ser. 6, vol. 1 (1979), p. 355-360.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Physical Description:1 online resource ([88] p.)