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Medieval manuscripts in post-medieval England / Andrew G. Watson.

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Two themes uniting the essays in this collection are the provenance and history of medieval manuscripts during the Middle Ages, and the fates that befell them in England in the period after the invention of printing and the 16th-century dissolution of the religious houses and visitations of the univ...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Watson, Andrew G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Series:Collected studies.
Subjects:
Manuscripts, Medieval > Collectors and collecting > England > History > 16th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval > Collectors and collecting > England > History > 17th century.
Private libraries > England > History > 16th century.
Private libraries > England > History > 17th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval > England > History.
England > Intellectual life > 16th century.
England > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Libraries and Collectors
  • I. The Post-Medieval Library of All Souls College, Oxford
  • II. Robert Green of Welby, Alchemist and Count Palatine, c. 1467-c. 1550
  • III. A Sixteenth-Century Collector: Thomas Dackomb, 1496-c. 1572
  • IV. John Twyne of Canterbury (d. 1581) as a Collector of Medieval Manuscripts: a Preliminary Investigation
  • V. Christopher and William Carye, Collectors of Monastic Manuscripts, and 'John Carye'
  • VI. Robert Hare's Books
  • VII. Thomas Allen of Oxford and his Manuscripts
  • VIII. The Manuscript Collection of Sir Walter Cope (d. 1614)
  • IX. The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke
  • X. Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum / Cyril Ernest Wright
  • Manuscripts
  • XI. An Early Thirteenth-Century Low Countries Booklist [in BL, MS Harley 2720]
  • XII. A Sixteenth-Century English Sammelband [in BL, MS Harley 218]
  • XIII. A Merton College Manuscript Reconstructed: Harley 625; Digby 178, fols. 1-14, 88-115; Cotton Tiberius B. IX, fols. 1-4, 225-35
  • XIV. A St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, Manuscript Reconstructed: Trinity College Cambridge MS R. 14.30 and British Library MSS Egerton 823 and 840A
  • XV. A Varese Library-Stamp Identified?

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