The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts - Texts, Owners and Readers (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	York Medieval Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Manuscript Culture in the British Isles
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	2010
Editors:	Ralph Hanna • Thorlac Turville-Petre
Contributors:	Alison Stones (Customer) • Alixe Bovey • Derek Pearsall • Dorothy Johnston • Gavin Cole • Ralph Hanna • Rob Lutton • Thorlac Turville-Petre
Dimensions:	312 x 237 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	206
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-903153-34-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > Reference works > Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies
LSN:	1-903153-34-4
Barcode:	9781903153345

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