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Authors: Andrew G. Watson
ISBN-13: 9780860789444, ISBN-10: 0860789446
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Andrew G. Watson

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Fifteen essays by Andrew G. Watson (Oxford U.) discuss the provenance and history of medieval manuscript books during the Middle Ages and the fates that befell them in England after the end of the period of manuscript production. The volume is divided into two chronologically arranged sections: the first dealing with collectors and collections and the second containing case studies of four manuscripts. The essays were originally published between 1963-2000. Watson has added additional notes and updated information for some of the articles; he has also included a thoughtful foreword (of 13 pages) that provides a useful overview to his methodology and course of study. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
	List of Illustrations
	Foreword
	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
	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?
	Additional Notes
	Indexes

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