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Aelfredi regis res gestae / [John Asser].

King Alfred the Great in military dress is visited in a dream by the goddess of science with stars in her hair, while winged sylphs gambol in the clouds. Etching by J.A. Minasi after B. Pernotin.

A group of figures, including Punch, enacting the finale of the first act from Alfred; overlooked by a musician and a writer visible in the clouds above. Pen and ink drawing.

Rebuilding of the walls of the City of London: King Alfred the Great, on horseback, visits the building site and gives an order to the master builder. Colour process print after F.O. Salisbury, 1912.

Aelfredi Magni Anglorum Regis invictissimi vita tribus libris comprehensa / A ... Johanne Spelman ... primum anglice conscripta, dein latine reddita, & annotationibus illustrata ab Ælfredi in collegio magnæ aulæ Universitatis oxoniensis alumnis.

Annales rerum gestarum Aelfredi Magni ... recensuit Franciscus Wise / [John Asser].

Historiæ ecclesiasticæ gentis Anglorum libri V / a Venerabili Beda, tribus præcipuè mss. Latinis, à mendis haud paucis repurgati: ab ... Anglo-Saxonum rege Aluredo (sive Alfredo) examinati; ... Quibus accesserunt Anglo-Saxonicæ leges [Gulielmo Lambardo interprete]: et ultimò, leges Henrici I nunc primùm editæ.

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