MONASTICON ANGLICANUM: The History of the Ancient Abbies, and Other Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, in England and Wales Withn Divers French, Irish and Scotch Monasteries Formerly Relating to England

by Dugdale, Sir William

1st English Edition

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London: Sam Keble and Ben Rhodes, 1693 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover without dust jacket (as issued). Donation inscription on ffep. All pages are present. Both boards are separated and the first few pages are loose. Mild foxing throughout. The original leather binding is in very poor condition and the volume needs to be rebound. All of the pages, however, are present and in good condition, with no significant losses. POOR. Published originally in three volumes in Latin, this first English edition, abridged, by James Wright, with page references in the margins, contains the history of all the abbeys, priories, monasteries, hospitals, and collegiate and cathedral churches in England from earliest times, before most were burnt during the rise of Protestantism by king Henry VIII. It also includes the history of the Knights Templar, of the new temple in London, foreign monasteries situated in France, Ireland and Scotland and much more. This is three volumes in one, continuously paginated. Each volume is preceded by a half-title: Volume One: Of the Benedictine Monks, Cluniacs, Cistercians, and Carthusians; Volume Two: Of the Canons Regular of St. Augustin, Hospitalers, Templars, Gilbertines, Praemonstratenses, and Maturins, or Trinitarians; Volume Three: Of the Cathedral and Collegiate Churches. Two indices provide access by county or by religious house to all three volumes. This is the first abridgment of Dugdale's greatest work, one which has become a standard work of reference to every serious student of medieval antiquities marking an epoch in the study of charters as a source of English history. There are the usual numerous pagination errors, but the work is complete. Rare.. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No Dust Jacket. Folio (7.75 x 12.5").

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