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Title:

1000 years of royal books and manuscripts / edited by Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick.

Publisher:

The British Library,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

323 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Subject:

Great Britain--Private collections.--Private collections.
Books--England--History--400-1450.
Manuscripts, Medieval--England.
Book collecting--England--History--To 1500.

Other Authors:

Doyle, Kathleen, 1958- editor of compilation.
McKendrick, Scot editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-308) and indexes.

Contents:

The Royal Library at Windsor Castle / Jane Roberts. King Athelstan's psalter (BL Cotton Galba A. xviii) / Michael Wood -- The provenance of the Morgan Golden Gospels (Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.23) : a new hypothesis / James P. Carley -- The great lost library of England's medieval kings? Royal use and ownership of books, 1066-1272 / Nicholas Vincent -- The Livre du Sacre of Charles V of France : a reappraisal / Joanna Fro¿ska -- Makers of royal manuscripts : court artists in France and the Netherlands / Catherine Reynolds -- The manuscripts of Edward IV : the documentary evidence / Scot McKendrick -- 'Preserved and transmitted for the good of posterity' : the transfer of the Old Royal Library from a palace to a museum / Kathleen Doyle -- Royal libraries in the King's library / John Goldfinch -- The Royal Library at Windsor Castle / Jane Roberts.

ISBN:

0712357084 (hbk.)
9780712357081 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)858824778

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)