Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England (Hardcover)

Contents: Foreword; Libraries and Collectors: The post-medieval library of All Souls College Oxford; Robert Green of Welby, alchemist and Count Palatine, c.1467-c.1540; A 16th-century collector: Thomas Dackomb, c.1496-c.1572; John Twyne of Canterbury (d. 1581) as a collector of medieval manuscripts: a preliminary investigation; Christopher and William Carye, collectors of monastic manuscripts, and 'John Carye'; Robert Hare's books; Thomas Allen of Oxford and his manuscripts; The manuscript collection of Sir Walter Cope (d. 1614); The manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke; Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum. Review article; Manuscripts: An early 13th-century Low Countries booklist [in BL MS Harley 2720]; A 16th-century English Sammelband [in BL, MS Harley 218]; A Merton College manuscript reconstructed: Harley 625, Digby 178 fols. 1-14, 88-115, Cotton Tiberius B. IX, fols. 1-4, 225-35; A St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, manuscript reconstructed: Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.30 and British Library MSS Egerton 823 and 840a; A Varese library-stamp identified?; Indexes.