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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford - Western Manuscripts (Hardcover, New)
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford - Western Manuscripts (Hardcover, New)
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The manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford present an
extraordinary variety of items, from humanist texts associated with
Erasmus to John Dee's alchemical books and many vernacular MSS.
This is the first full catalogue, with a large number of
illustrations. The College of Corpus Christi, Oxford, was a
'Renaissance' institution both as to its foundation date (1517) and
the intention of its founder, Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester.
Both Fox himself and his choice as the College's first President,
John Claymond, were friends of Erasmus, who approved of the
foundation and especially of its library. Fox intended his
foundation to be a conduit of Italian humanism to Oxford and to the
English clergy. In itsextraordinary variety, this collection is a
challenge to the cataloguer. Some manuscripts relate to the
programme of the College's founder and first President, but most of
the manuscripts reflect the particular interests of collectors from
the late sixteenth century onwards. John Dee's books for example,
mostly small, unpretentious and often fragmentary or made up of
fragments, constitute a gold-mine for the historian of medieval
chemistry and alchemy.These are supplemented by an important group
of astronomical, arithmetical and medical texts. There is a
substantial clutch of twelfth- and thirteenth-century manuscripts
from Lanthony Priory. Noteworthy, too, is the large number of
manuscripts in several vernaculars: Old and Middle English and
French, Old Irish, Catalan, and even a few words of
fifteenth-century Czech. The bindings of the Corpus manuscripts
have been wholly neglected. Many books retain important medieval
bindings, some as early as the twelfth century, and a substantial
number of beautiful blind-stamped bindings of the late fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries. A special place in the collection is
occupied by the approximately 1, 200 manuscript fragments, taken
from bindings of books in the library in the late nineteenth
century.
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