The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Gildas, Saint (c. 450/500 - c. 570)
British monk, known as Gildas the Wise (Gildas Sapiens) and author of De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, a chronicle of the Britons before and during the coming of the Saxons. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/10718 Authority - medievalReferences in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 13.
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it ends many Years before the Reformation (
the Catalogue of Popes is inserted
Hand as the rest of the Book.
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. That this is a Book of greatGildas
Value appears by the Character given it by a Right Reverend
Author, who all will allow to be a most competent Judge, and
who is pleased to mention it, with others of great Value re
ferr'd to by
Usher
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it ends many Years before the Reformation (
viz. 12
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