Title: Books and collectors, 1200-1700
Description: The essays that make up this collection examine 4 main themes in the history of the book over 5 centuries: monastic books and mediaeval learning, humanism and incunabula, the dispersal of monastic libraries and post-monastic collections.
Subjects: Libraries, Book collecting, Books, History, Medieval Manuscripts, Incunabula, Book collectors, Monastic libraries, Learning and scholarship, Rare Books, Manuscripts as Topic
Places: England
Time periods: 1400-1600, 400-1400, 17th century