Medieval scribes, manuscripts & libraries
Subtitle: essays preseted to N. R. Ker
By: edited by M. B. Parkes and Andrew G. Watson.
Contributors: Ker, N. R.; Parkes, M. B.; Watson, Andrew G.
Publisher: Scolar Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Ker, N. R.; Paleography.; Manuscripts, Medieval -- History.; Libraries -- History -- 400-1400.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Chaplais, P. The letter from Bishop Wealdhere of London to Archibishop Brihtwold of Canterbury: the earliest original 'letter close' extant in the West.; title: Pope, J. C. Palaeography and poetry: some solved and unsolved problems of the Exeter book.; title: Bishop, T. A. M. The prototype of Liber glossarum.; title: Alexander, J. J. G. Scribes as artists: the arabesque initial in twelfth-century English manuscripts.; title: Thompson, R. M. The 'scriptorium' of William of Malmesbury.; title: Pollard, G. The pecia system in the medieval universities.; title: Doyle, A. I. & Parkes, M. B. The production of copies of the Canterbury tales and the Confessio amantis in the early fifteenth century.; title: Piper, A. J. The libraries of the monks of Durham.; title: Hunt, R. W. The library of the Abbey of St. Albans.; title: Watson, A. G. Thomas Allen of Oxford and his manuscripts.; title: Rigg, A. G. Antiquaries and authors: the supposed works of Robert Baston, O. Carm.; title: Rouse, R. H. & Rouse, M. A. The medieval circulation of Cicero's 'Posterior academics' and the De finibus bonorum et malorum.; title: Gibbs, J. A bibliographiy of the published writings of N. R. Ker.