Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England

by Watson,Andrew G.

• ISBN13: 9780860789444
• ISBN10: 0860789446
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

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 universities. The section 'Libraries and collectors' includes papers on seven major English collectors of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the section 'Manuscripts' concerns the fates of five manuscripts or groups of manuscripts from England, Belgium and Italy. Of the other chapters one is concerned with the post-medieval history of the library of All Souls College, Oxford, and another with the provenance of hundreds of manuscripts in the Harleian collection in the British Library. For this volume Andrew Watson has provided extensive additional notes and indexes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Abbreviations	ix
List of Illustrations	xiii
Foreword	xv
LIBRARIES AND COLLECTORS
I The Post-Medieval Library of All Souls College, Oxford	65	(247)
II Robert Green of Welby, Alchemist and Count Palatine, C. 1467-c. 1550	312
III A Sixteenth-Century Collector: Thomas Dackomb, 1496-c. 1572	204
IV John Twyne of Canterbury (d. 1581) as a Collector of Medieval Manuscripts: a Preliminary Investigation	133	(2)
V Christopher and William Carye, Collectors of Monastic Manuscripts, and 'John Carye'	135	(74)
VI Robert Hare's Books	209	(70)
VII Thomas Allen of Oxford and his Manuscripts	279
VIII The Manuscript Collection of Sir Walter Cope (d. 1614)	262
IX The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke	1	(602)
X Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, by Cyril Ernest Wright (London, British Museum, 1972). Review article	603
MANUSCRIPTS
XI An Early Thirteenth-Century Low Countries Booklist [in BL, MS Harley 2720]	39	(177)
XII A Sixteenth-Century English Sammelband [in BL, MS Harley 218]	216
XIII A Merton College Manuscript Reconstructed: Harley 625; Digby 178, fols. 1-14, 88-115; Cotton Tiberius B. IX, fols. 1-4, 225-35	207	(4)
XIV A St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, Manuscript Reconstructed: Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.30 and British Library MSS Egerton 823 and 840A	211
XV A Varese Library-Stamp Identified?	147
Additional Notes	1	(1)
Indexes
I. Personal and Place Names	1	(18)
II. Manuscripts and Early Printed Books	19