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Joseph Armitage Robinson (1858 1933) was an internationally
regarded scholar of early Christian texts, as well as an
influential churchman, theologian, historian and pioneer of
Anglican Catholic ecumenical dialogue. While he was Dean of
Westminster, he collaborated with the outstanding medievalist and
palaeographer M. R. James, then Provost of King's College,
Cambridge, on this study, originally published in 1908. It
documents the history of the library at Westminster Abbey and its
accompanying scriptorium from 1060 to 1660, the original library
having been dispersed at the dissolution of the monasteries and its
successor destroyed by a fire in 1694. The authors present
surprisingly detailed information, compiled from surviving sources,
about the buildings, furniture and holdings of the library, its
administration, the budget for buying and restoring books, and
acquisitions from gifts and legacies. James even succeeds in
identifying some manuscripts once owned by Westminster that have
survived in other collections.
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