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Prints for Books
The second half of the eighteenth century in France was one of the great ages of book illustration, which saw the meeting of top-quality engraving, fine printing, and high bibliophily….
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Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe
This book, by one of the most distinguished of contemporary cultural historians, examines the relationship between plays in performance and plays in print and the often tortuous transmission of texts…
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Qur’an Manuscripts
While the significance of the written word reverberates through both Judaism and Christianity, nowhere does the physical presence of scripture matter as much as it does in the Islamic world….
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Rothschilds and their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts
The family art collections of the Rothschilds were legendary for their extravagance and refinement. This is the first history of the Rothschilds as bibliophiles and especially as collectors of medieval…
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Russian Magic Books in the British Library
The work of W.R.S. Ralston, a Keeper of the British Museum Library in the mid- 19th century and authority on Russian magic and folklore is discussed in this latest addition…
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Scottish Libraries
Scottish Libraries chronicles an impressive collection of books and pamphlets in Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and English, providing fascinating insight into the reading, both cultural and political, available to the…
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St Albans Psalter
The St Albans Psalter, made in the 1130s, is one of the great monuments of English Romanesque painting and has survived the disasters of religious upheaval and war in pristine…
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Syon Abbey with the Libraries of the Carthusians
Syon Abbey, the only house of the Bridgettine order in England, was founded in 1415. The celebrated literary activities of the brethren were supported by a magnificent library, one of…
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The Catalogues of Henry de Kirkestede
In the middle years of the fourteenth century, the monk Henry de Kirkestede, librarian and later prior of Bury St Edmunds abbey, set about compiling a universal bibliography of writers…
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The Library of Peterborough Abbey
This volume brings together every catalogue and book-list to survive from the library of Peterborough Abbey, one of the great monastic houses of medieval England. The lists range in date…
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The New Testament 1526
Preface by David DaniellIntroduction by W. R. CooperA Note on the Text1. The Gospell of. S. Mathew2. The Gospell of. S. Marke3. The Gospell of. S. Luke4. The Gospell of….
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The Romantics and the British Landscape
The melancholic beauty of the British landscape was a central influence on the life and work of the Romantic poets. Not content to merely depict rural life or point out…