Vetusta monumenta : quae ad rerum Britannicarum memoriam conservandam Societas Antiquariorum Londini sumptu suo edenda curavit. Volumen primum. [-septimum]..

By: Society of Antiquaries of London
Contributor(s): Nichols, John, 1745-1826 [printer.] | Bensley, Thomas, approximately 1760-1835 [printer.] | Nichols, J. B. (John Bowyer), 1779-1863 [printer.] | Society of Antiquaries of London [publisher.]
Language: English, Latin Publisher: Londini: : [Society of Antiquaries of London], Anno Domini MDCCXLVII [1747-1896].Description: 7 volumes : illustrations (some color, some folded), plans, plates, portraits, facsimiles (part double) table ; 56-57 cm (folio).Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeOther title: Vetvsta monvmentaContained works: Ayloffe, Joseph, Sir, 1709-1781. Account of some ancient monuments in Westminster AbbeySubject(s): Seals (Numismatics) -- Early works to 1800. -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800
Contents:
Volume 2 includes: An account of some ancient monuments in Westminster Abbey. By Sir Joseph Ayloffe, bart. ... London, 1780. Volume 3 includes: An account of the seals of the kings, royal boroughs, and magnates of Scotland. By Thomas Astle. Also, An index to the first three volumes of Vetusta monumenta. By Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1810. Volume 5 includes: Some account of the abbey church of Tewkesbury ... By Thomas Amyot.--Notes and remarks, by ... William Capon, to accompany his plan of the ancient palace of Westminster.--Some remarks on the pillar or obelisk at Forres, Morayshire, called Sueno's stone. By J. H. Markland.--Observations on several ancient swords of state belonging to the earldom of Chester: in a letter from George Ormerod.--Some account of the ancient and present state of the abbey of St. Mary, York ... By the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved.--Observations on the church of St. Mary le Bow, chiefly relating to its original structure: by George Gwilt.--Memoir, on the antiquities discovered by Edward Rudge ... in excavating the ruins of the abbey church of Evesham: by Edward John Rudge. Volume 6 includes: Remarks on the Louterell Psalter, an illuminated manuscript of the first part of the fourteenth century. Communicated by John Gage Rokewode.--A memoir on the Painted chamber in the palace at Westminster ... by John Gage Rokewode.--Notice of a drawing in the Royal library at Windsor, representing the chair of St. Peter at Rome. By Arthur Ashpitel.--Remarks on illuminations in some Irish Biblical manuscripts. Communicated by the Rev. James Henthorn Todd. Two memoirs on the "Evangelia quatuor," once belonging to the abbey of Lindau, and now to the Earl of Ashburnham: I. The golden jewelled covers, by Alexander Nesbitt. II. The ms. text, by Edward Maunde Thompson. Volume 7, part I. The tomb of an archbishop recently opened in the cathedral church of Canterbury, by W. H. St. John Hope. 1893. pt. II. The achievements of Edward, prince of Wales (The "Black Prince") in the cathedral church of Canterbury, by W. H. St. John Hope. 1895. pt. III. The royal gold cup of the kings of France and England now preserved in the British museum, described by C. H. Read. 1904. pt. IV. The obituary roll of John Islip, abbot of Westminster, 1500-1532; with notes on other English obituary rolls, by W. H. St. John Hope. 1906.
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The seven volumes are dated 1747, 1789, 1796, 1815, 1835, 1885 and 1896 (for the fourth part of vol.7) respectively.

Consists almost entirely of plates with sections of explanatory letterpress text with irregular, somtimes separate sometimes continuous, paginations and registers inserted between them.

Vol. 1: [70] leaves of plates (some folded), [2] folded leaves of plates; LV leaves of plates (some folded); vol. 3: XLIV leaves of plates (some folded); vol. 4: LII leaves of plates (some folded); vol. 5: LXIX leaves of plates (some folded); vol. VI: XXXIX leaves of plates (some folded).

On verso of t.p. to vols. 3 and 4: "T. Bensley, printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London".

On verso of t.p. to vol. 5: "John Bowyer Nichols and Son 25, Parliament Street".

Includes bibliographical footnotes.

"An account of some ancient monuments in Westminster Abbey, By Sir Joseph Ayloffe, Bart. V.P.A.S.L. F.R.S. Soc. Antiq. Cassel. Sod. Honorar. Read at the Society of Antiquaries March 12, 1778" has separate dated t.p. with ornament and imprint "London, printed by J. Nichols, printer to the Society of Antiquaries" on leaf [A]2r of vol. 2.

Includes bibliographical footnotes, and vol. 3 has a final index to first 3 volumes.

Binding: All volumes bound uniformly in half-leather with buckram boards.

Volume 2 includes: An account of some ancient monuments in Westminster Abbey. By Sir Joseph Ayloffe, bart. ... London, 1780.
Volume 3 includes: An account of the seals of the kings, royal boroughs, and magnates of Scotland. By Thomas Astle. Also, An index to the first three volumes of Vetusta monumenta. By Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1810.
Volume 5 includes: Some account of the abbey church of Tewkesbury ... By Thomas Amyot.--Notes and remarks, by ... William Capon, to accompany his plan of the ancient palace of Westminster.--Some remarks on the pillar or obelisk at Forres, Morayshire, called Sueno's stone. By J. H. Markland.--Observations on several ancient swords of state belonging to the earldom of Chester: in a letter from George Ormerod.--Some account of the ancient and present state of the abbey of St. Mary, York ... By the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved.--Observations on the church of St. Mary le Bow, chiefly relating to its original structure: by George Gwilt.--Memoir, on the antiquities discovered by Edward Rudge ... in excavating the ruins of the abbey church of Evesham: by Edward John Rudge.
Volume 6 includes: Remarks on the Louterell Psalter, an illuminated manuscript of the first part of the fourteenth century. Communicated by John Gage Rokewode.--A memoir on the Painted chamber in the palace at Westminster ... by John Gage Rokewode.--Notice of a drawing in the Royal library at Windsor, representing the chair of St. Peter at Rome. By Arthur Ashpitel.--Remarks on illuminations in some Irish Biblical manuscripts. Communicated by the Rev. James Henthorn Todd. Two memoirs on the "Evangelia quatuor," once belonging to the abbey of Lindau, and now to the Earl of Ashburnham: I. The golden jewelled covers, by Alexander Nesbitt. II. The ms. text, by Edward Maunde Thompson.
Volume 7, part I. The tomb of an archbishop recently opened in the cathedral church of Canterbury, by W. H. St. John Hope. 1893. pt. II. The achievements of Edward, prince of Wales (The "Black Prince") in the cathedral church of Canterbury, by W. H. St. John Hope. 1895. pt. III. The royal gold cup of the kings of France and England now preserved in the British museum, described by C. H. Read. 1904. pt. IV. The obituary roll of John Islip, abbot of Westminster, 1500-1532; with notes on other English obituary rolls, by W. H. St. John Hope. 1906.

ESTC, T106127

Text in English with quotations and examples in Latin.