The Wollaton medieval manuscripts : texts, owners and readers /
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| Imprint: | Woodbridge, Suffolk : York Medieval Press : In Association with Boydell & Brewer ... and with the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 2010. |
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| Description: | xi, 146 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map, facsims. (some col.), geneal. tables ; 32 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Manuscript culture in the British Isles ; 3 Manuscript culture in the British Isles ; 3. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8292027 |
| Summary: | A survey of the history, holdings, decoration, and conservation of one of England's finest medieval libraries, with full catalogue.The Willoughby family, from Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, built up an extensive medieval library, including the notable Wollaton Antiphonal; theirs is the largest surviving library gathered by a gentry family of the period, the product of a single acquisitive burst, beginning around 1460 and mainly completed at about the time of the Dissolution in 1540. The manuscripts remain unique because of the very substantial core which survives more or less in situ, together with a huge collection of family archives, at the University of Nottingham, just a few miles from their original home. This book focuses upon the ten manuscripts now in the Wollaton Library Collection as well asthe famous Antiphonal. Essays explore the history of the library and the Willoughby family, the books of Sir Thomas Chaworth, the art and function of the Antiphonal, the works of pastoral instruction, the decoration of the Frenchmanuscripts (including the earliest fully illustrated manuscript of romances), the Confessio Amantis, and the conservation of the collection. The essays are followed by a full catalogue of the Wollaton Library Collection aswell as of manuscripts and early printed books now dispersed as far afield as Tokyo and New York. Contributors: Alixe Bovey, Gavin Cole, Ralph Hanna, Dorothy Johnston, Rob Lutton, Derek Pearsall, Alison Stones, Thorlac Turville-Petre.of the Frenchmanuscripts (including the earliest fully illustrated manuscript of romances), the Confessio Amantis, and the conservation of the collection. The essays are followed by a full catalogue of the Wollaton Library Collection aswell as of manuscripts and early printed books now dispersed as far afield as Tokyo and New York. Contributors: Alixe Bovey, Gavin Cole, Ralph Hanna, Dorothy Johnston, Rob Lutton, Derek Pearsall, Alison Stones, Thorlac Turville-Petre.Alixe Bovey, Gavin Cole, Ralph Hanna, Dorothy Johnston, Rob Lutton, Derek Pearsall, Alison Stones, Thorlac Turville-Petre.of the Frenchmanuscripts (including the earliest fully illustrated manuscript of romances), the Confessio Amantis, and the conservation of the collection. The essays are followed by a full catalogue of the Wollaton Library Collection aswell as of manuscripts and early printed books now dispersed as far afield as Tokyo and New York. Contributors: Alixe Bovey, Gavin Cole, Ralph Hanna, Dorothy Johnston, Rob Lutton, Derek Pearsall, Alison Stones, Thorlac Turville-Petre. |
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| Item Description: | Seven studies and a catalog devoted to the Wollaton manuscript collection, which was collected by the Willoughby family and is named after their principal seat, Wollaton Hall, in Nottinghamshire. Series statement from book jacket. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 146 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map, facsims. (some col.), geneal. tables ; 32 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781903153345 (hbk.) 1903153344 (hbk.) |
