Agents

Parker (Matthew)

1504–1575
antiquarians, archbishops
Canterbury

archbishop of Canterbury, antiquarian and patron.

Manuscripts (1)
Publications (2)

Later, secondary hand:

London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho A xii [s. xi – s. xii]

Parker, Matthew [presumed], Ælfredi regis res gestae, London: [John Day], 1574.

STC (2nd ed.) no. 863. First edition of Asser’s biography of King Alfred, interpolated with extracts from the Annals of St Neots, which Parker believed to have been written by Asser. The date of publication, 1574, is not indicated but has been established on the basis of a letter by Parker to William Cecil written in the same year (older references in the literature may have 1570).

Library of Congress: <link> Library of Congress: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Parker on the Web – Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 176, part A (parts B and C are bound together): <link> : <link>

Parker, Matthew, De antiquitate Britannicae ecclesiae et priuilegiis ecclesiae Cantuariensis, [Lambeth, London]: [John Day], 1572.

See also: CanterburyCanterbury

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