F. Nicholai Triveti, de ordine frat. Prædicatorum, Annales sex regum Angliæ, qui a comitibus Andegavensibus originem taxerunt, (A.D. M.C.XXXVI-M.CCC.VII) / Ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum recensuit Thomas Hog.

  • Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328.
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1845
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Credit: F. Nicholai Triveti, de ordine frat. Prædicatorum, Annales sex regum Angliæ, qui a comitibus Andegavensibus originem taxerunt, (A.D. M.C.XXXVI-M.CCC.VII) / Ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum recensuit Thomas Hog. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    His educa- tion. vi PREFACE. cease as late as 1360. This latter date may be shown to be erroneous, by a reference to what our author says of his father in the subsequent Annals; and, as Hall conjectures, the error is the result of à typical blunder on the part of Simler, the author of the article in question, in the Bibl. Gesneriana, which has been blindly followed by so many of his successors. The former date, however, as it, agrees with what Trivet says of his father, seems correct (namely, 1258—1328); and consequently makes him a con- temporary historian, if not of the latter years of Henry III, assuredly of all the reign of Edward I. All authors who have written of him are agreed that he was educated in London; but whether, or not, in his tender years he was con- fided to the care of the Dominicans, who first entered England in 1921, is not quite so cer- tain: it seems probable, however, that there ! According to Quetif and that it was written when he had Echard, i. 563, Trivet thus be- completed his forty-ninth year. gins a commentary, * In declama- tiones Senecz ; * Exacto septe- narii annorum natalium quadrato, cum, Domorum Jovis et Saturni, Phoebus, brumali statione signi- fero peragrato, configeret, etc.: in which he informs us that this comment was the fruit of a re- laxation after a severe illness. The historians of the Dominican order doubt, whether, by this opening sentence, four times se- ven, 2. e. twenty-eight, or the square of seven, namely, forty- nine years, is meant. As they incline to the former conjecture merely on the presumption of this production being more suited to so early a period of life, we prefer adopting the simplest meaning of the passage, namely, This work is dedicated to F. John de Levinha, i/lustris regis Anglice confessor. At what period this John de Levinha was confessor, and whether to Edward I. or IT., we have not been able to deter- mine ; but it must have been sub- sequent to the year 1300, as at that time F. Walter de Wynter- borne was confessor to Edward I.; Lib. Quot. Contrarot. Garde- roba,p.41. Jlfitcould be shown 3t what time John de Levinha became the king's confessor, as might easily be done had we a series of such works as that just quoted, we should be able to de- termine almost to a certainty the date of Trivet's birth. ? Annales, infra, p. 209.