Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores X, Simeon Monachus Dunelmensis : Johannes Prior Hagustaldensis. Ricardus Prior Hagustaldensis. Ailredus Abbas Rievallensis. Radulphus de Diceto Londoniensis. Johannes Brompton Jornallensis. Garvasius Monachus Dorobornensis. Thomas Stubbs Dominicanus. Guilielmus Thorn Cantuariensis. Henricus Knighton Leicestrensis. Ex vetustis manuscriptis, Nunc primùm in Lucem editi. Adjectis Variis Lectionius, Glossario, Indicèque copioso
A 1652 London edition of ten medieval English chronicles, edited by Roger Twysden and John Selden from old manuscripts for a scholarly readership. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcuts and seal engravings: a pennoned staff on wheeled wheels, a royal seal with Latin inscription, and an ornamental initial A with a figure, useful for designers seeking antique scholarly typography and emblematic devices.




