Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library, Including Those Formerly in Sion College Library

Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library, Including Those Formerly in Sion College Library
Author :
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 176
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0859915476
ISBN-13 : 9780859915472
Rating : 4/5 (472 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library, Including Those Formerly in Sion College Library by : Oliver S. Pickering

Download or read book Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library, Including Those Formerly in Sion College Library written by Oliver S. Pickering and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handlist to manuscripts in one of Britain's major medieval repositories. Lambeth Palace Library, which dates from a bequest by Archbishop Bancroft in 1610, is one of England's major repositories of medieval manuscripts. More than half of the ninety-six manuscripts and documents containing items of Middle English prose were already present when the library was temporarily transferred to Cambridge in 1647. In the succeeding centuries further manuscript materials have continually been added, and within the last few years the library has become home to the older part of Sion College Library, an event that has added a further seven manuscripts to the present handlist. The collection at Lambeth is large enough to be fully representative of the corpus of Middle English prose: the Brut, the Wycliffite Bible, and Love's Mirror, for example, are all present, in some cases in multiple copies, as are writings by Hilton and Rolle. There are sermon cycles (including an almost complete set of Wycliffite sermons), medical recipes, historical works, and anthologies of religious treatises. Altogether the current handlist indexes almost 800 separate items, ranging from the veterinary to the liturgical. O.S. PICKERINGis Senior Assistant Librarian and Associate Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds; V.M. O'MARAis Lecturer in English at the University of Hull.


Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library, Including Those Formerly in Sion College Library Related Books

Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library, Including Those Formerly in Sion College Library
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Oliver S. Pickering
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

GET EBOOK

Handlist to manuscripts in one of Britain's major medieval repositories. Lambeth Palace Library, which dates from a bequest by Archbishop Bancroft in 1610, is o
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library. Additions from 1843-1852. An index of subjects. An index of authors and books
Language: en
Pages: 642
Authors: London Institution. Library
Categories: Classified catalogs
Type: BOOK - Published: 1852 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

A catalogue of the library of the London institution [by W. Upcott, R. Thomson and E.W. Brayley].
Language: en
Pages: 606
Authors: William Upcott
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1835 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

A Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Language: en
Pages: 536
Authors: Charles Burney
Categories: Early printed books
Type: BOOK - Published: 1821 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK