Volume 1

Liber niger scaccarii, nec non Wilhelmi Worcestrii Annales rerum anglicarum / cum præfatione et appendice Thomæ Hearnii ad editionem primam Oxoniæ editam. Editio altera. Accedunt chartæ antiquæ et opuscula varia historiam et antiquitates Angliæ spectantia; et antehac inedita.

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Date:
1774
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Credit: Liber niger scaccarii, nec non Wilhelmi Worcestrii Annales rerum anglicarum / cum præfatione et appendice Thomæ Hearnii ad editionem primam Oxoniæ editam. Editio altera. Accedunt chartæ antiquæ et opuscula varia historiam et antiquitates Angliæ spectantia; et antehac inedita. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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