La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei : the life of St. Edward the Confessor, reproduced in facsimile from the unique manuscript (Cambridge university library EE. 3. 59) together with some pages of the manuscript of the life of St. Alban at Trinity college, Dublin, with an introduction by M.R. James ... Printed for the Roxburghe Club.

Oxford : Printed at the University press by F. Hall, 1920.

74, [1] p., facsim., 1 p.l., 65 p., 10 l. : illus. ; 32 x 23 cm.

BEIN Z118h 031: Roxburghe Club, London. Publications 175. "Herbert E. Ryle, Bp., Dean of Westminster. July 22, 1920. A gift from his friend John Murray" inscribed on fly leaf.

"The illustrations are, of course, the point of principal interest ... " The text, "a French versification of the Latin prose life of St. Edward by Alfred of Rievaulx", which was little more than an abridgment and paraphrase of the life by Osbert of Clare, was printed in full by Dr. Luard in 1858 in the Rolls series of Chronicles and memorials, with a literal translation. The present editor believes the manuscript to be the "work of Matthew Paris, carried out at St. Alban's abbey under his supervision, no by, his own hand"--cf. Pref.

English; French

June 01, 2002