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PARIS, MATTHEW. Historia major. Juxta exemplar Londinense 1571, verbatim recusa.
[32], 680, [128], 215, [9] pages, including engraved portrait of Paris. Folio, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, covers slightly warped and dampstained, rebacked with morocco, joints cracked; paper corrosion along fore edge of opening leaves, occasional toning. Paris: Guillielmus Pelé, 1644
- Notes: "A composite chronicle, containing the St. Albans compilation to the end of 1188, Roger de Wendover's chronicle, 1189-1235, both revised by Paris, and his work from 1235 to 1259" (DNB). Sarton II, 1109 ("the climax of English monastic historiography").
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