ISBN |
-- 071234506x |
Title |
Books and collectors 1200-1700 : essays presented to Andrew Watson / edited by Andrew P. Carley and Colin G.C. Tite |
Publisher |
London : British Library, 1997 |
Physical desc. |
xxii, 501 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm. |
Series |
The British Library studies in the history of the book |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Contents |
Pt. 1: Monastic books and medieval learning. Books and learning at Gloucester Abbey in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Rodney Thomson -- Latin devotional texts and the books of the Augustinian canons of Thurgarton Priory and Leicester Abbey in the late middle ages / Teresa Webber -- Two sequences of dated illuminated manuscripts made in Oxford 1450-64 / Kathleen L. Scott -- Dr. Thomas Swalwell: monk of Durham, archivist and bibliophile (d. 1539) / A.J. Piper -- Archaizing hands in English manuscripts / M.B. Parkes -- Pt. 2: Humanism and incunabula. Philippe de Vitry's books / Andrew Wathey -- A catalogue of Cambridge University Library in 1583 / Elisabeth Leedham-Green and David McKitterick -- The Bodleian Library's acquisition of incunabula with English and Scottish medieval monastic provenances / Alan Coates and Kristian Jensen -- Pt. 3: Dispersal of monastic libraries. The dispersal of the library of Christ Church, Canterbury, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century / Christopher de Hamel -- Thomas Cranmer and the dispersal of medieval libraries: the provenance of some of his medieval manuscripts and printed books / David G. Selwyn -- Robert Talbot's 'Old Saxonice Bede': Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.3.18 and the 'Alphabetum Norwagicum' of British Library, Cotton MSS, Domitian A. IX / Timothy Graham -- Importing books for Oxford, 1500-1640 / Julian Roberts -- William Claxton and the Durham Chronicles / A.I. Doyle -- Sir Thomas Bodley's library and its acquisitions: an edition of the Nottingham Benefaction of 1604 / James P. Carley -- Pt. 4: Later collectors. 'Such speciall bookes of Mr Somersettes as were sould to Mr Secretary': the fate of Robert Glover's collections / Pamela M. Selwyn -- For king, earl and diplomat: some vellum bindings of the first half of the seventeenth century / Mirjam M. Foot -- Pennarum Nitor: a Jacobean scribal patternbook / Janet Backhouse -- Sir Robert Cotton, Sir Thomas Tempest and an Anglo-Saxon gospel book: a Cottonian paper in the Harleian Library / Colin G.C. Tite -- Medieval manuscripts owned by William Browne of Tavistock (1590-1?-1643/5) / A.S.G. Edwards -- Sir Thomas Mostyn and the Mostyn manuscripts / Daniel Huws -- Andrew Watsons' principal writings. |
Subject |
Books -- England -- History -- 400-1400 |
Books -- England -- History -- 1400-1600 |
Books -- England -- History -- 17th century |
Libraries -- England -- History -- 400-1400 |
Libraries -- England -- History -- 1400-1600 |
Libraries -- England -- History -- 17th century |
Book collecting -- England -- History |
Added name(s) |
Tite, Colin G.C. (Colin Gerald Calder) ed. |
Carley, James P. ed. |