Book, History, English "Gray Friers" London 1726

18th C. Book, "Collectanea Anglo-Minoritica, Or, A Collection of the Antiquities of the English Franciscans, Or Friers Minors, Commonly Call'd Gry Friers." In Two Parts. With an Appendix concerning the English Nuns of the Order of SaintClarke." Compil'd and Collected by A.P. [Cuthbert Anthony Parkinson] (London: Printed by Thomas Smith in Silver Street, Bloomsbury, 1726), With 4 engraved plates, 2 parts in 1 volume; Quarto, new leather binding and endpapers, pp. 29 & 272 & 57. Text on pages 1-8 and 145-152 handwritten to replace missing pages, apparently sometime in the 19th century. This volume, quite scarce, is perhaps best known for its account on page 209 of the death of King Richard III, providing crucialdetails on the dispostion of his body after the Battle of Bosworth Field on August 22, 1485. This account aided in the discovery of his body under a parking lot in Leicester

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