The earliest books of Canterbury Cathedral : manuscripts and fragments to c. 1200 /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:Canterbury Cathedral. Library.
Imprint:London : Bibliographical Society : British Library, 2008.
Description:414 p. : col. ill., col. facsims. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Canterbury sources ; 4
Canterbury sources ; 4.
Subject:Canterbury Cathedral. -- Library -- Catalogs.
Canterbury Cathedral. -- Library.
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- England -- Canterbury.
Books -- History -- 400-1450.
Handschriften.
Canterbury Cathedral Library.
Kerkelijke bibliotheken.
Books.
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Canterbury (UK)
England -- Canterbury.
Union catalogs.
Catalogs.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7412630
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Other authors / contributors:Gameson, Richard.
Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)
British Library.
ISBN:9780948170166 (Bibliographical Society)
9780948170164 (Bibliographical Society)
0948170166 (Bibliographical Society)
9780712350082 (British Library)
071235008X (British Library)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-404) and indexes.
Summary:"One of the greatest literary centres throughout the Middle Ages, Canterbury still preservers - despite horrendous losses - a significant collection of medieval manuscripts. In this book Professor Richard Gameson has described and discussed all Canterbury's pre-thirteenth-century manuscripts for the first time. Each manuscript is illustrated in colour, several with more than one image. Highlights range from the oldest copies of the Alfredian translation of Gregory the Great's Dialogues, and of Lanfranc's gloss on the Epistles, through fine liturgica, to an extraordinarily grand copy of Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica. Detailed descriptions are complemented by broad-ranging analyses that explain the significance of these works in general and of the Canterbury copies in particular. In a substantial introduction Professor Gameson traces the history of book-production in Kent and Canterbury up to c. 1200, follows the development and use of the Canterbury collections in the later Middle Ages, and discusses the fate of these books at the Reformation."--BOOK JACKET.

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