La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei;
the Life of St. Edward the confessor, reproduced in facsimile from the unique manuscript (Cambridge university library Ee.3.59) together with some pages of the manuscript of the life of St. Alban at Trinity College, Dublin,
with an introduction by M. R. James. Printed for the Roxburghe Club.

Description

Related Names

Edward, the Confessor, king of England, Saint.
Alban, Saint.
James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936, editor.
Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167.
Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259, editor.
Roxburghe Club.
Cambridge University Library.

Language(s)

French, Old (ca. 842-1300) ; English

Published

Oxford, Printed at the University press by F. Hall, 1920.

Subjects

Edward, > Edward, / King of England, > Edward, / King of England, / approximately 1003-1066.
Illumination of books and manuscripts.
Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman > Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman / Facsimiles.

Note

Sir Edward Maundi Thompson's copy (name in red in list of members of Roxburghe club).
"The illustrations are, of course, the point of principal interest ... " the text, "a French versification of the Latin prose life of St. Edward by Aibred of Rievauix," which was little more than an abridgment and paraphrase of the life by Osbert of Clare, was printed in full by Dr. Luard in 1858 in the Rolls series of Chronicles and memorials, with a literal translation. The present editor believes the manuscript to be the "work of Matthew Paris, carried out at St. Alban's Abbey under his supervision, not by his own hand." cf. Pref.

Physical Description

74, [1] p., facsim.: 1 p. l., 65 p., 10 l. illus. 31 cm.

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