Thomae Sprotti Chronica. E codice antiquo MSto. in bibliotheca praenobilis adolescentis Dni. Edvardi Dering, de Surrenden Dering in agro Cantiano, baronetti, descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius, qui & alia quaedam opuscula, ̀codicibus MSStis. authenticis à seipso itidem descripta, subjecit
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Title: Thomae Sprotti Chronica. E codice antiquo MSto. in bibliotheca praenobilis adolescentis Dni. Edvardi Dering, de Surrenden Dering in agro Cantiano, baronetti, descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius, qui & alia quaedam opuscula, ̀codicibus MSStis. authenticis à seipso itidem descripta, subjecit
Other titles: Chronica
Classmark: 1710-19 1719 SPR
Creator(s): Sprott, Thomas
Additional creator(s): Hearne, Thomas (1678-1735) (Other); Smith, Thomas (1638-1710) (Other); Cantalupus, Nicolaus (1441) (Other)
Publisher: E Theatro Sheldoniano
Publication city: Oxonii
Date(s): 1719
Language: English
Size and medium: lxxx, 334, pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, folded preliminary leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/300000
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004116249705181
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"Printed by Hearne in 1719 as Sprott's, with a number of "Fragmenta Sprottiana"... But the originals of these works are not forthcoming, and what was Sprott's share in them is not known" (DNB) The "Chronica extends from the creation to 1339.
OCLC reports a plate which does not appear to be present in all copies (cf. ESTC).
Tho. Hearnius lectori.--Thomæ Hearnii ad præfationem suam appendix.--Virorum cli. de Thoma Sprotto testimomia ac judicia.--A memorandum relating to Sir Edward Dering and the Lincoln inscription.--Subscribers to this work.--Thomæ Sprotti Chronica.--Fragmenta Sprottiana.--Chronica de tempore mundi. E collectaneis mss. Thomæ Smithi.--A tract relating to Peterburgh and Ramsey abbies: transcrib'd from a parchment ms. in the hands of Mr. John Murray, of London.--Nicholai Cantalupi Historiola de antiquitate et origine Universitatis cantabrigensis. Præmittuntur bullæ quædam papales, aliaque ad universitatis ejusdem historiam spectantia.--A remarkable fragment of an old English chronicle or history of the affairs of King Edward the Fourth. Transcrib'd from an old ms.
Indexed in: ESTC t147681.
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Lacking folded plate
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