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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Chronicon Saxonicum
edited + translated into Latin by Edward Gibson 4°
Oxford: Sheldonian 1692
Copy: HEHL, Harvard, Stanford
Ref: Wing A3185

[12] 244, [36], 64 p. folded plate: map
Anglo-Saxon + Latin in parallel columns

Saxonicum 133 188 x 227 mm
An M III An M IV
Chronicon 134 R3 (of 4)
An M V An M VI

1692 -- 2nd printed ed. -- edited by Edmund Gibson
an English jurist + divine who became Bishop of
Lincoln in that year. It was printed in Latin
and Anglo-Saxon in 2 parallel columns + became
the standard ed. until the 19th C.
The 1st ed edited by Abraham Wheloc, professor of
Arabic at Cambridge, was printed 1643-44 at
Cambridge. It was based mainly on the MSS called G.
Gibson (1669-1648) was bishop of Lincoln + London
+ Lambeth Palace librarian.

First ed. of the 1st Anglo-Saxon grammer in English.
Elizabeth Elstob. "The Rudiments of Grammar for
the English-Saxon Tongue" London, for W. Bowyer 1715
4° pp [viii], xxxv, [1] 70 Rudiments is printed
partly in Anglo-Saxon type newly cut for the purpose
+ afterwards presented to the Univ. of Oxford.