Du Chesne (Andre). Historiae Normannorum scriptores antiqui, res ab illis per Galliam, Angliam, Apuliam, Capuae Principatum, Siciliam, & Orientem gestas explicantes, ab Anno Christi DCCCXXXVIII. ad annum MCCXX. Insertae sunt Monasteriorum Fundationes variae, series Episcoporum ac Abbatum: genealogiae Regum, Ducum, Comitum, & Nobilium... ex MSS. codd. omnia fere nunc primum edidit, Paris [Robert Fouet, Nicolas Buon, & Sebastien Cramoisy], 1619, [12], 1092 (of 1104), [20], also without index at end, title printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, colophon leaf before main text, front pastedown from an incunable printed text in red and black, contemporary blindstamped full vellum, rubbed and some discolouration, some wear to corners, with a little loss to lower outer corner of front board, folio, together with Jansen (Cornelis). Commentariorum in suam Concordiam, ac totam Historiam Evangelicam partes IIII, Lyon, Charles Pesnot, 1582, title with large printer's woodcut device, text in double column, woodcut initials, contemporary blind-decorated full calf, later reback, clasps lacking, some wear, thick folio, plus Philo Judaea. Opera, ex accuratissima Sigismundi Gelenii, & aliorum interpretatione, partim ab Adriano Turnebo... partim a Davide Hoeschelio, Paris, 1640, title printed in red and black with large engraved publisher's device, parallel text in Greek and Latin in two columns, minor marks to first and last few leaves, contemporary full calf, worn with covers detached, upper cover gilt lettered 'Mr Hulme's Exhibition M Elton Braz. Coll. 1801', and Malder (Johann), De Virtutibus Theologicis et Justitia et Religione Commentaria Ad Secundam Secundae D. Thomae, Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, Apud Balthasarem et Joannem Moretos Fratres, 1616, elaborate engraved title, text in double column, some light overall browning, colophon to verso of final leaf of text, and printer's woodcut device to last leaf, contemporary blind-decorated full calf, worn with upper cover detached and rear cover near-detached, folio (Qty: 4) Gross 578. An important collection of early Norman histories, including some of the most important medieval texts here published for the first time, including Ordericus Vitalis Dudo of St. Quentin, and William of Jumieges. The editor Andre Du Chesne (1584-1640) is 'one of the fathers of French history, together with Gregory of Tours'. Several of the texts included here were printed from manuscripts owned by the important English antiquary Sir Robert Cotton, including William of Poitiers' biography of William the Conqueror, the Encomium Emmae Reginae, an 11th-century life of Queen Emma, aunt of William the Conqueror (whose marriages to Ethelred and Canute paved the way for the Norman claim to the English throne and the invason of 1066), as well as William of Jumieges' Gesta.
Du Chesne (Andre). Historiae Normannorum scriptores antiqui, res ab illis per Galliam, Angliam, Apuliam, Capuae Principatum, Siciliam, & Orientem gestas explicantes, ab Anno Christi DCCCXXXVIII. ad annum MCCXX. Insertae sunt Monasteriorum Fundationes variae, series Episcoporum ac Abbatum: genealogiae Regum, Ducum, Comitum, & Nobilium... ex MSS. codd. omnia fere nunc primum edidit, Paris [Robert Fouet, Nicolas Buon, & Sebastien Cramoisy], 1619, [12], 1092 (of 1104), [20], also without index at end, title printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, colophon leaf before main text, front pastedown from an incunable printed text in red and black, contemporary blindstamped full vellum, rubbed and some discolouration, some wear to corners, with a little loss to lower outer corner of front board, folio, together with Jansen (Cornelis). Commentariorum in suam Concordiam, ac totam Historiam Evangelicam partes IIII, Lyon, Charles Pesnot, 1582, title with large printer's woodcut device, text in double column, woodcut initials, contemporary blind-decorated full calf, later reback, clasps lacking, some wear, thick folio, plus Philo Judaea. Opera, ex accuratissima Sigismundi Gelenii, & aliorum interpretatione, partim ab Adriano Turnebo... partim a Davide Hoeschelio, Paris, 1640, title printed in red and black with large engraved publisher's device, parallel text in Greek and Latin in two columns, minor marks to first and last few leaves, contemporary full calf, worn with covers detached, upper cover gilt lettered 'Mr Hulme's Exhibition M Elton Braz. Coll. 1801', and Malder (Johann), De Virtutibus Theologicis et Justitia et Religione Commentaria Ad Secundam Secundae D. Thomae, Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, Apud Balthasarem et Joannem Moretos Fratres, 1616, elaborate engraved title, text in double column, some light overall browning, colophon to verso of final leaf of text, and printer's woodcut device to last leaf, contemporary blind-decorated full calf, worn with upper cover detached and rear cover near-detached, folio (Qty: 4) Gross 578. An important collection of early Norman histories, including some of the most important medieval texts here published for the first time, including Ordericus Vitalis Dudo of St. Quentin, and William of Jumieges. The editor Andre Du Chesne (1584-1640) is 'one of the fathers of French history, together with Gregory of Tours'. Several of the texts included here were printed from manuscripts owned by the important English antiquary Sir Robert Cotton, including William of Poitiers' biography of William the Conqueror, the Encomium Emmae Reginae, an 11th-century life of Queen Emma, aunt of William the Conqueror (whose marriages to Ethelred and Canute paved the way for the Norman claim to the English throne and the invason of 1066), as well as William of Jumieges' Gesta.
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