First edition published 1548 under title: Illustrium Maioris Britanniae scriptorum summarium.

Arranged chronologically. The material upon which the work was based is to be found, arranged alphabetically, in an autograph note book preserved in the Bodician library, which was pub. 1902 under title: Index Britanniae scriptorum ... ed. by R.L. Poole (Anecdora oxonienea. Medieval and modern ser. pt. IX).

Full title: Scriptorvm illustriū Maioris Brytannie quam nunc Augliam & Scotiam escant: Catalogus : [?] lapheto per .1018 anno[?] ad annū lique Domini 1557. ex Beroso, Gennaillo, Reda, Honorio, Bostono Buriensi, Framentario, Capgraus, Bostio, Burello, Trissa, Tritemio, Geenero, Ioanne Lelando, atq, alijs authoritats collectus, & IX cetiturias continens : In quo autiquitates, origines, annales, ioca, ancesqus, celebrioraq̃, cuiueq, scriptoris facta, dicta, consilia, reripta obitus, & alia scita non indigna reconsentur, roau ubiq, annorũ suppuratione seruam : ot inde tain reproharum, quim electorum eccie sire uninistorū facta, mysterijs in S. Ioannis Apocalypsi descriptis, in stellis, angelis, quie, tubis, tonitrais, capitibos, coronia, montibus, phialis ac plagis per atates rirusalem eccleslie singulae historica & apti respanelanti anture Ioanne Kaleo. Accesserunt his, appendices, und cum aclix ruturmerum ...

Vol. 2 has title: Scriptorum illustrium maioris Brytanniae posterior pars, quinque continens centvrias vltimas.

Signatures: v. 1: x6B4y4a-z4A-Z4aa-zz4 Aa-Aaa4; v. 2: x6[?]4a-z4A-T4.

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