Bibliograph

Thomae Walsingham, quondam monachi S. Albani, historia Anglicana, Edited by Henry Thomas Riley, Thomas Walsingham, Volume 1

Type

Label

Thomae Walsingham, quondam monachi S. Albani, historia Anglicana, Edited by Henry Thomas Riley, Thomas Walsingham, Volume 1

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Thomae Walsingham, quondam monachi S. Albani, historia Anglicana

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1103581433

Responsibility statement

Edited by Henry Thomas Riley, Thomas Walsingham

Series statement

Cambridge library collection. RollsCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

Between 1863 and 1876, the Rolls Series published several works from or about the abbey of St Albans, edited by Henry Thomas Riley (1816–78) under the rubric 'Chronica monasterii S. Albani'. This two-volume edition of the 'History of England' by Thomas Walsingham (c.1340–c.1422), who supervised the scriptorium at St Albans until 1394, appeared in 1863–4. Riley followed a fifteenth-century manuscript, Arundel M.S. VII, but the appendix to Volume 2 supplies additional material from an earlier manuscript, Brit. Mus. Reg. 13. E. IX. Modern scholars argue that this work, with several others previously published separately, belongs to a larger Chronica majora overseen by Walsingham, and that its complicated manuscript tradition reveals Thomas' changing opinions of Richard II and John of Gaunt. For over a century Riley's edition was acknowledged as authoritative for the central period 1377–92. The text appears in Latin, with English side-notes.--, Provided by publisher

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