The Anglo-Saxon library / Michael Lapidge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lapidge, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libraries--England--History--400-1400.

Libraries.

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Bibliography.

English literature.

Manuscripts, Medieval--England.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Scriptoria--England.

Scriptoria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This invaluable study sets out the evidence for the nature and holdings of libraries in Anglo-Saxon England, from the sixth century to the eleventh. It is furnished with appendices which include editions of all surviving Anglo-Saxon book inventories, lists of those manuscripts exported from and imported into Anglo-Saxon England, and a catalogue of all classical and patristic works cited by Anglo-Saxon authors. The volume is concluded by a comprehensive index (combining the evidence. of inventories, surviving manuscripts, and citations) of all classical and patristic writings known in England b

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Vanished Libraries of Classical Antiquity; 2. Vanished Libraries of Anglo-Saxon England; 3. Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (I): The Evidence of Inventories; 4. Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (II): The Evidence of Manuscripts; 5. Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (III): The Evidence of Citations; Conclusions; Appendices; Catalogue of Classical and Patristic Authors and Works Composed before AD 700 and Known in Anglo-Saxon England; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts; General Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-363) and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-90545-X

0-19-153301-7

1-4356-1815-7

OCLC:

476258573