Author: Ellis, Sir Henry [editor] & John of Oxenedes
Title: Chronica Johannis De Oxenedes [ Chronicles And Memorials Of Great Britain And Ireland During The Middle Ages Volume 13 ( Rolls Series ) ]
Description: Longmans, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1859, 1st edition, revised. Quarter cloth over paper boards, F. xl+439pp+15pp publishers catalogue, folding plate, Ex- Monastic Library [ St Augustine's Ramsgate ] with their bookplate, cardholder, small paper label to the base of the spine, endpapers yellowed, otherwise a fine copy. Fine copies of the Rolls series are uncommon. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ The Chronicle of John of Oxenedes about who's life little is known. The Chronicle has survived in just two MS collections - ( Cottonian Nero D.ii & a second in papers from Clumber. ) The work was written at the Abbey of St Benet at Holme and is a history of England up until 1293, & it begins with Alfred the Great. It includes a history of St Benet Holme as well as several other brief documents and like all 13th century chronicles contains much on the author's own time.

Keywords: medieval history, history, chronicles, biography