Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
By: by F. Somner Merryweather.
Contributors: Copinger, H. B. b. 1881.; Copinger, Walter Arthur, 1847-1910.
Edition: A new and rev. ed. / prepared by H. B. Copinger from materials compiled by the late Walter A. Copinger.
Publisher: Norwood Editions
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Norwood, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Bibliomania -- History.; Scriptoria -- England -- History.; Book collectors -- England -- Biography.; Libraries -- Great Britain -- History -- 400-1400.; Monastic libraries -- Great Britain -- History.; Manuscripts, Medieval -- Collectos and collecting -- England -- History.; England -- Intellectual life -- Medieval period, 1066-1485.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Being sketches of bookworms, collectors, bible students, scribes, and illuminators, from the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods to the introduction of printing into England; with anecdotes illustrating the history of the monastic libraries of Great Britain in the olden time."
Reprint of the new and rev. ed. (1933) published by Woodstock Press, London.