Author: Hearne, Thomas.
Title: THOMÆ SPROTTI CHRONICA. Thomæ Sprotti. E codice antiquo MSto. in bibliotheca praenobilis adolescentis Dni. Edvardi Dering, de Surrenden Dering in agro cantiano, Baronetti, descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius, qui & alia quaedam opuscula, è codicibus MSStis. authenticis à seipso itidem descripta, subjecit.
Description: Oxonii : E Theatro Sheldonian, 1719. LXXX,334,[2]p. Dec. headpieces and tail pieces and initial letters. [Without plate at pp.lxi which according to Lowndes is called for in the larger paper copy]. Latin text, except ‘A Remarkable Fragment ...’ in English. Ink Rampart demi-lion stamp to tail of title page, occasional leaves browned along fore-edge with pp.189-192 frayed, new e.ps., contemporary tree calf, some wear to edges, upper leading corner sl. bumped, light surface wear to tail of lower board, rebacked in cloth with much of original gilt tooled spine laid down. ¶ ESTC T147681. ‘With a list of subscribers and a final advertisement leaf. The advert states that both large and small copies were available. Height: 23cm; gutter: 1.5cm. LVu copy 22.6, 1.5. MATCHERS BEWARE: KU-S has the fine paper copy distinguished by the following points among others: p.xliii, sig. f2 under 'the' instead of 'of' in regular paper issue [as in our copy]; p.177, sig. Z under comma following 'venerunt' instead of 's' of 'sed' in reg. paper issue [our copy under ‘s’].’ Our copy measures 20.5cm. tall. This work, in the series of mediaeval texts edited by Hearne, was erroneously attributed by him, to Thomas Sprott (a monk of St. Augustine’s Canterbury, fl.11270) whose chronicle (later used by William Thorne and Thomas Elmham - see Gransden 11/346) is now lost. The present work is a chronicle of general history from the creation to 1339 with a number of "Fragnenta Sprottiana" from a MSS of Sir Edward Dering but the originals of these works have not been located.

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