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[SAVILE, Henry (1549-1622), compiler].
RERVM ANGLICARVM SCRIPTORES POST BEDAM PRAECIPVI, EX VETVSTISSIMIS CODICIBVS MANVSCRIPTIS NVNC PRIMVM IN LVCEM EDITI.
WILLIELMI Monachi Malmesburiensis de gestis regum Anglorum lib. V.
Eiusdem Historiæ Nouellæ lib. II.
Eiusdem de gestis Pontificum Angl. Lib. IIII.
HENRICI Archidiaconi Huntidoniensis Historiarum lib. VIII.
ROGERI HOVEDENI Annalium pars prior & posterior. Chronicorum ETHELWERDI lib. IIII.
INGVLPHI Abbatis Croylandensis historiarum lib. I.
Adiecta ad finem CHRONOLOGIA.
LONDINI, Excudebant G. BISHOP, R. NVBERIE, & R. BARKER Typographi Regii Deputati. Anno ab incarnatione, [1596].
Translation:
The principal writers on English affairs after Bede, edited from the most ancient manuscript codices and now appearing for the first time.
William of Malmesbury, On the Deeds of the English Kings, in five books;
by the same author, The New History, in two books;
by the same author, On the Deeds of the English Bishops, in four books;
Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon, Histories, in eight books;
Roger of Howden, Annals, the first and second parts;
The Chronicles of Ethelwerd, in four books; Ingulf, Abbott of Crowland, Histories, in one book.
A chronology is appended at the end.
Issued at London by G. Bishop [George Bishop], R. Nuberie [Ralph Newbery], & R. Barker [Robert Barker], printers by royal appointment. In the year since the Incarnation 1596.
London: George Bishop, Ralph Newbery and Robert Barker; 1596
Folio: 8.5 by 12.5"
Illustrated with woodcut printer’s device on title-page, 4 divisional titles printed within elaborate woodcut architectural borders, woodcut and letterpress illustration of the Great Seal of King William of Sicily,
plus numerous head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials.
[iv],[1]-520, [30, “Fasti Regum et Episcoporum Angliae…” chronological tables] fols.
Original late 16th century full limp vellum with manuscript ink title to spine.
Savile’s dedication to Queen Elizabeth I on fol. [ii].
text toned, very good condition
FIRST EDITION and Editio Princeps of the works included.
With bookplates of Daniel Rock (an English Catholic priest, ecclesiologist, and antiquarian) and St. John’s Seminary on the front endleaves.
Text in Latin (a few words or passages in English).
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Henry Savile was born on November 30, 1549 in Over Bradley, West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of a relatively prosperous landowner, also Henry Savile. Savile was brought up to value learning and was tutored in the classics, reading Terence, Ovid, Virgil, Horace and Cicero in his childhood before attending Oxford University. He matriculated at Brasenose College at the age of twelve, where he excelled in mathematics and astronomy. He graduated BA on January 14, 1566 and MA on May 30, 1570. By this point, he had already been elected to a fellowship at Merton College and later held a number of college offices, including second dean, principal postmaster, and third bursar. He controversially became warden of Merton in 1585 and provost of Eton in 1596, largely due to his close relationship with Elizabeth I, resulting from his appointment in 1582 as her Greek tutor.
As a scholar, Savile is best known as the translator of Tacitus and editor of John Chrysostom, though he wrote numerous theological and mathematical texts of his own. In 1604, he was knighted by King James and appointed to work on the Authorized Version of the Bible, eventually heading the “fifth company” in translating the gospels, Acts of Apostles, and Book of Revelation. Savile is also remembered as a great contributor to the Oxford libraries and as having improved both the Eton and Merton libraries. In the latter, he tripled its holdings of printed books and introduced the continental style of bookstacking (where books stand up rather than lie flat, in the usual English style); these bookshelves remain intact. Despite an initial disagreement, Savile was great friends with Thomas Bodley, who required his assistance many times in the Bodleian Library’s early days. Savile was one of the first donors to the Bodleian and ensured the completion of that library after Bodley’s death in 1613.
In 1596, Savile published Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam, a collection of English chronicles and histories after Bede. Although the work was poorly received, it contains our only text of Æthelweard’s Chronicle. The manuscript of that work was destroyed in the 1731 Cotton Library fire.
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