Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library, Including Those Formerly in Sion College Library

Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library, Including Those Formerly in Sion College Library
Author: Oliver S. Pickering
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780859915472

Handlist to manuscripts in one of Britain's major medieval repositories. Lambeth Palace Library, which dates from a bequest by Archbishop Bancroft in 1610, is one of England's major repositories of medieval manuscripts. More than half of the ninety-six manuscripts and documents containing items of Middle English prose were already present when the library was temporarily transferred to Cambridge in 1647. In the succeeding centuries further manuscript materials have continually been added, and within the last few years the library has become home to the older part of Sion College Library, an event that has added a further seven manuscripts to the present handlist. The collection at Lambeth is large enough to be fully representative of the corpus of Middle English prose: the Brut, the Wycliffite Bible, and Love's Mirror, for example, are all present, in some cases in multiple copies, as are writings by Hilton and Rolle. There are sermon cycles (including an almost complete set of Wycliffite sermons), medical recipes, historical works, and anthologies of religious treatises. Altogether the current handlist indexes almost 800 separate items, ranging from the veterinary to the liturgical. O.S. PICKERINGis Senior Assistant Librarian and Associate Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds; V.M. O'MARAis Lecturer in English at the University of Hull.

The Library

The Library
Author: Sir John Young Walker MacAlister
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1890
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

Library Literature

Library Literature
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 688
Release: 1927
Genre: Bibliographical literature
ISBN:

"An index to library and information science".

Godly Reading

Godly Reading
Author: Andrew Cambers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2011-03-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521764890

This innovative exploration of Puritan reading practices from c.1580-1720 connects the history of religion with the history of the book.

Journal

Journal
Author: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 888
Release: 1868
Genre:
ISBN: