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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Lambeth Palace (Paperback)
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Lambeth Palace (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries, Volume 2
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M. R. James (1862 1936) is probably best remembered as a writer of
chilling ghost stories, but he was an outstanding scholar of
medieval literature and palaeography, who served as Provost of
King's College, Cambridge, and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum,
and later became Provost of Eton College. His detailed descriptive
catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums
are still of value to scholars today. James worked with the Lambeth
Librarian Claude Jenkins on this catalogue, first published in five
parts between 1930 and 1932, of the important manuscript collection
begun by Archbishop Bancroft in the early seventeenth century.
Building on James' handlist of medieval manuscripts in the library,
published in 1900 and also reissued in this series, it gives full
descriptions of the manuscripts including their contents,
decoration, provenance and history. Volume 2 of this reissue
contains Parts 4 5, covering manuscripts 358 576 and 36 others.
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