An Account of Richard of Cirencester, Monk of Westminster, and of His Works

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Full title:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="color:#212529;">An account of Richard of Cirencester, Monk of
Westminster, and of his Works: with his Antient Map of Roman Brittain; and the
Itinerary therof. Read at the Antiquarian Society, March 18, 1756. </span><span style="color:#212529;">By William Stukeley, M.D. Rector of Saint George,
Queen-Square, Fellow of the College of Physicians, of the Royal and Antiquarian
Societies</span></span></p><p></p>

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(2 blank), pp. 94, ff. [2] of plates (1 folded), f. [1] (blank). Facsimile,
map. Signatures: A-M⁴. </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">Folded map signed:
"Ricardi Tabulam Wm. Stukeley ad Normani Geographicā delin." The
final leaf contains a facsimile of part of an original MS. Head- and
tailpieces; initial.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);">A discussion of De situ Britanniae, regarded by
the </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">archaeological
enthusiast<span style="color:rgb(33,37,41);"> Stukeley (1687-1765) as
the genuine work of the 14^th-century monk Richard of Cirencester,
but actually a literary forgery by Charles Julius Bertram (1723-1765). Stukeley
published t</span>he work, a paper which he had read to the Society of
Antiquaries, with a huge folding map, Stukeley’s own version of the (imaginary)
one Bertram had sent him ‘from memory’. Two presentation copies: 1) Calf;
inscribed ‘Museo Britannico D.D. Auctor’, but apparently never accessioned or
released by the British Museum. Signature from 1866 on first blank; and 2)
Mottled calf, inscribed by Stukeley to Thomas Clark; Macclesfield ‘North
Library’ bookplate. See also W. Stukeley, Itinerarium curiosum; or, An account
of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in
travels through Great Britain. 2^nd ed., with large additions.
London: Baker and Leigh, 1776 (Bib# 1031696/Fr# 700 in this collection).</span></p><p></p>

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