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A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library at Holkham Hall / Suzanne Reynolds.
Fine Arts Library ND2894.G7 R49 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reynolds, Suzanne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holkham Hall (England)--Manuscripts--Catalogs.
- Holkham Hall (England).
- Manuscripts--Great Britain--Catalogs.
- Manuscripts.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, European.
- Great Britain.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, European--Catalogs.
- Holkham Hall (England), repository.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- volume : color illustrations ; 34 cm
- Other Title:
- Manuscripts in the library at Holkham Hall
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout : Brepols, 2014-
- Summary:
- The manuscript library at Holkham is widely recognised as one of the most significant collections still in private hands. It consists of some 550 items, deriving chiefly from the libraries of lawyer and parliamentarian Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) and his eighteenth-century successor, the builder of Holkham, Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester (1697-1759). Chief Justice Coke's book include many texts on law, heraldry and religion, and are mainly of British origin; these will be catalogued in volume 2. Thomas Coke's library, however, was acquired through a series of large-scale purchases and gifts on his Grand Tour (1712-1718), and includes examples of the whole range of European book production from the twelfth to the seventeenth century. Here [vol. 1], the heart of the collection - manuscripts made in Italy in the Middle Ages and the age of humanism - is properly described for the first time.
- Contents:
- volume 1. Manuscripts from Italy to 1500. part 1. Shelfmarks 1-399
- part 2. Shelfmarks 400 onwards
- volume 2. Other manuscritps to 1500
- volume 3. Manuscripts after 1500.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, part 1, pages 351-369) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 2503529003
- 9782503529004
- OCLC:
- 884242617
- Publisher Number:
- 99965085068
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