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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Paperback)
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries, Volume 2
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M. R. James (1862 1936), best known as a writer of chilling ghost
stories, was an outstanding scholar of medieval literature and
palaeography, who served both as Provost of King's College,
Cambridge, and as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. His detailed
descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals
and museums are still of value to scholars today. This two-volume
catalogue, first published in 1921, was commissioned as the fourth
in a series of guides to the collection of Oriental and Western
manuscripts in the John Rylands Library. It describes 183 Latin
rolls and codices dating from the sixth to the nineteenth century,
their material, dimensions, structure, provenance, decoration and
content. Volume 1 contains the text, and Volume 2 consists of 187
plates, illustrating a wide range of scripts, decorations and
covers. James' book is still sought after and this reissue will be
welcomed by librarians and researchers alike.
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