Summary Catalogue of the Additional Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library acquired before 1940

By (author) Jayne S Ringrose

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Publication date:

17 December 2009

Length of book:

376 pages

Publisher

Boydell Press

ISBN-13: 9781846157660

This volume provides a summary description of over three hundred western medieval manuscripts [excluding Greek] acquired by Cambridge University Library since the publication of the mid-nineteenth century printed catalogue; for the most part, no published descriptions have hitherto existed. Concentrating on contents and provenance, the catalogue covers manuscripts from a sixth-century fragment of Augustine to a translation by Erasmus of a work by Plutarch,and in Latin, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Welsh. The descriptions are complemented with an introductory survey of the collection and its history.