1719 Hundred Years WAR 1ed Thomas Sprott Chronica 14th-c Edward III Dering RARE

1719 Hundred Years WAR 1^ed Thomas Sprott Chronica 14^th-c Edward III Dering RARE

A rare, fascinating 18^th-century printing of an old, 14^th-century chronicle of the affairs of King Edward III! Misattributed to 14^th-century chronicler Thomas Sprott, the “Chronica” is one of the earliest general histories of the world from Creation through the year 1339, and the start of the Hundred Years’ War. Edward Dering, a 17^th-century historian, collected numerous manuscript fragments of the Chronica and attributed them to Sprott. Thomas Hearne published them as a complete work in Oxford in 1719 – a work which went on to be known as the Fragmenta Sprottiana, even though Sprott is no longer considered to be the author of the fragments.

Item number: #26279

Price: $750

SPROTT, Thomas [misattrib.]

Thomae Sprotti Chronica

Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1719. First, only edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • LXXX, 334, [2]
• Provenance:
  • Bookplate – Anne F. Sutton
    • Anne Frances Sutton (1942–2022) was a British historian. Her research focused on medieval English history, especially Richard III and medieval women.
  • Ephemera – Letter
    • Signed A. B. Emden, likely Alfred Brotherston Emden (1888–1979). Emden was an Oxford University historian and Principal of St Edmund Hall from 1929 to 1951. He published widely on matters concerning St Edmund Hall and the medieval church, and was placed in charge of the Oxford University Naval Division as a Lieutenant-commander during World War II.
    • Addressed to “Armstrong,” who Anne F. Sutton surmises is Charles Arthur John (or C.A.J.) Armstrong (b. 1909). Armstrong was a leading post-war English historian, known for his studies of the First Battle of St Albans and the medieval Duchy of Burgundy. He is best remembered for discovering the long-lost Mancini manuscript: Dominic Mancini’s account of the reign of Edward V of England and the accession of his uncle, Richard III in the summer of 1483.
  • Language: Latin / English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~9in X 6in (22.5cm x 15cm)

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