Paris, Matthew. The flowers of history : especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain. From the beginning of the world to the year 1307

Folger bibliographic ID: 54250
Folger call number: DA220 .M4
Folger holdings ID: 55667

General notes

The part covering the period from A. D. 1259 to A. d. 1307 is largely a contemporaneous record Matthew of Westminster, "an imaginary name given to a supposed author of a chronicle called 'Flores historiarum'; it is affixed to a manuscript of the 'Flores', probably written early in the fifteenth century ... The 'Flores' was partly compiled and partly composed by varous writers at St. Alans and Westminster",--Dict. nat. biog For a history of the work, cf. Dict. nat. biog. and the authorities to which it refers

Extended title: The flowers of history : especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain. From the beginning of the world to the year 1307 / Collected by Matthew of Westminster. Tr. from the original by C.D. Yonge ...

History, Ancient Great Britain

attributed name: Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259