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English literature, Bibliography, Early, Bio-bibliographyPlaces
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Originally published 1548 under title: Illustrium Maioris Britanniae scriptorum summarium.
Arranged chronologically. The material upon which the work was based is to be found, arranged alphabetically, in an autograph notebook preserved in the Bodleian library, which was published 1902 under title: Index Britanniae scriptorum ... edited by R.L. Poole (Anecdota oxoniensa. Medieval and modern ser. p. IX).
Vol. 2 has title: Scriptorvm illustrium maioris Brytanniae posterior pars, quinque continens centvrias vltimas, qvas avthor ... ex Lelando antiquario, alijśque probis authoribus, non paruo labore collegit. His addita svnt, Adami, Sethi, Enochi, Noachi, alioruḿq[ue] ueteris Testamenti patrum scripta, ut sciant homines, ab initio mortalium semper fuisse in ecclesia scriptores. Adiectae sunt & descriptiones Angliae, Scotiae, Hyberniae, Hebridum atque Orchadum insularum, cum alijs lectu non iniucundis: ut tota res, cursusq́[ue], negotij, certius & compertius ab omnibus qui Brytanniam non uiderunt, cognosceretur. Accesserunt & Indices utriusq[ue] partis totius huius operis, tam rerum quàm nominum praecipuè memorabilium, ualde locupletes ... Colophon dated: M.D. LIX.
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