Books and collectors 1200-1700 : essays presented to Andrew Watson

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Part 1 Monastic books and medieval learning: books and learning at Gloucester Abbey in the 12th and 13th centuries, Rodney Thomason 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 1450-1464, Kethleen L. Scott Dr Thomas Swalwell - monk of Durham, archivist and bibliophile (d.1539), A.J. Piper archaizing hands in English manuscripts, M.B. Parkes. Part 2 Humanism and incunabula: Philippe de Vitry's books, Andrew Wathey a catalogue of Cambridge University Library in 1583, Elisabeth Leedham-Green and David Kitterick the Bodleian Library's acquisition of incunabula with English and Scottish medieval monastic provenances. Part 3 Dispersal of monastic libraries: the dispersal of the library of Christ Church, Canterbury, from the 14th to the 16th century, Christopher de Hamel Thomas Cranmer and the dispersal of medieval libraries - the provenance of some of his manuscripts and printed books, David G. Selwyn Robert Talbot's Old Saxonice Bede - Cambridge University Library, Cotton MSS 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 Sir Thomas Bodley's library and its acquisitions - an edition of the Nottingham Benefaction of 1604. Part 4 Later collections: such speciall Books of Mr Somersettes as were sould to Mr Secretary (sic) - the fate of Robert Glover's collections, Pamela M. Selwyn for king, earl and diplomat - some vellum bindings of the first half of the 17th 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 Brown of Tavistock (1590/1?-1643/5), A.S.G. Edwards Sir Thomas Mostyn and the Mostyn manuscripts, Daniel Huws.

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