Archaionōmia, sive De priscis Anglorum legibus libri : sermone anglico, vetustate antiquissimo, aliquot ab hinc seculis conscripti, nunc demun...ètenebris in lucem vocati
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Type of record: Book
Title: Archaionōmia, sive De priscis Anglorum legibus libri : sermone anglico, vetustate antiquissimo, aliquot ab hinc seculis conscripti, nunc demun...ètenebris in lucem vocati
Other titles: Laws, etc
Classmark: Large English B-13 LAW
Creator(s): Great Britain
Additional creator(s): Lambarde, William (1536-1601) (Other); Wheelocke, Abraham (1593-1653) (Other); Twysden, Sir Roger (1597-1672) (Other); Nowell, Laurence (1576) (Other)
Publisher: Ex officina Rogeri Daniel
Publication city: Cantabrigiae
Date(s): 1644
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 7 unnumbered pages, 152, 1 unnumbered page, 153-226, 9 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/232687
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012742819705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
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"Ad lectorum" signed: Abraham Whelocus.
Laws from Ina to Canute, and the 'Canones Ælfrici' are in Anglo-Saxon and Latin, in parallel columns; the 'Leges Willielmi conquestoris, et Herrici, filii eius' are in Anglo-Norman and Latin.
This collection was originally made by Laurence Nowell, who going abroad in 1557, left it to Lambarde to translate and publish - Clarke, Bibliotheca Iegum.
"Leges Willielmi conquestoris, et Henrici, filii eius": p. 153-216, with 'Præfatio' signed: Roger Twysden.
First word of title transliterated.
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