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The Letters of Humfrey Wanley - Palaeographer, Anglo-Saxonist, Librarian, 1672-1726. With an Appendix of Documents (Hardcover)
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The Letters of Humfrey Wanley - Palaeographer, Anglo-Saxonist, Librarian, 1672-1726. With an Appendix of Documents (Hardcover)
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This collection of 243 letters, only a handful of which have
previously appeared in print, illustrates the full range of Humfrey
Wanley's interests as Anglo-Saxonist, palaeographer, and the
greatest librarian of his age. Covering the years from his arrival
in Oxford in 1694 to his death in 1726, they show the genesis and
growth of Wanley's great Catalogus, his comprehensive account of
Anglo-Saxon manuscripts published in 1705. They also chart his
formulation of palaeography as a discipline for English scholarship
from an immense range of ancient materials, and illustrate the
skill and energy with which Wanley, as library-keeper to Robert
Harley, built up the Harleian collection (subsequently one of the
foundation collections of the British Museum).
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