The Church Historians Of England Vol 4

Author : Joseph Stevenson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331692808
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Church Historians of England, Vol. 4 written by Joseph Stevenson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Church Historians of England, Vol. 4: Part II., Containing the History of William of Newburgh, the Chronicles of Robert De Monte; Translated From the Original Latin A more accurate edition was published in octavo, at Paris, in 1610, by Picard, who supplied the chapters in which the previous edition was defective. The manuscript which he used was written in what Picard styles anglo-saxon letters, and belonged to one Humet, an advocate in the senate at Paris. The notes are valuable; they were reprinted by Hearne. Some copies bear the date of 1632, but the body of the work is the same. In 1719 Hearne issued an edition, in which he corrected Picard's text by the use of a manuscript, the loan of which he had obtained from Sir Thomas Sebright,2 and which at an earlier period having belonged to the monastery of Newborough, is therefore worthy of the highest regard; yet it is scarcely entitled to the enthusiastic commendations lavished upon it by Hearne, who has preserved, with laborious trifling, the minutest particulars in which it differs from Picard's text; and these variations, even when they do not affect the sense, he is pleased to call corrections. The text, which was defective in two places, some leaves having been lost, was supplied by the Lambeth copy. The English Historical Society has issued an edition in the course of the present year It gives Hearne's text, collated with the Lambeth manuscript, and a copy in the library of Corpus Christi College, at Cambridge. The present translation has been made from Hearne's text, and that published by the English Historical Society; for the loan of the sheets of which, before they were issued to the public, the translator begs to express his thanks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.