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（Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge / [general editor, Robert Latham], v. 5）
D.S. Brewer, 1981-1992
- pt. 1 : medieval
- pt. 2 : modern
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Catalogue of the Pepys Library
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Kobe University General Library / Library for Intercultural Studies
pt. 1 : medievals061009400310*
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University of Tokyo, Komaba Library外
pt. 1 : medieval3911088593,3910693716,
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Contents of Works
- pt. 1. Medieval / compiled by Rosamond McKitterick and Richard Beadle
- pt. 2. Modern / compiled by C.S. Knighton
Description and Table of Contents
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pt. 2 : modern ISBN 9780859910781
Description
Modern Manuscriptscovers all post-medieval MSS in the Library, describing the contents of nearly 250 volumes, ranging from the great naval collections to the individual letters and notes. It includes some of the best knownitems in the Library (the Anthony Roll of Henry VIII's navy; the Maitland poems, the Diary itself), as well as a wide variety of MSS hitherto neglected for want of a complete catalogue. Building on the specialist catalogues of M.R. James and J.R. Tanner, the present volume encompasses not only naval and maritime affairs, but also poetry, history, law, liturgy, genealogy, sorcery and much else, describing in greatest detail those items which remain unpublished.
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pt. 1 : medieval ISBN 9780859913416
Description
Comprehensive itemisation and technical description of the medieval manuscripts in Pepys's Library.
No fewer than twenty-three of Pepys's thirty-eight medieval manuscripts contain Middle English texts, and date from the 14th and 15th centuries. Devotional tracts and religious poetry predominate, though there is also a corpus ofsecular poetry by Lydgate and Chaucer, and some scientific and medical material; a notable rarity is the Caxton Ovid. His Latin books include Bacon's Perspectivaand other treatises on optics, and the mathematical treatisesof Johannes de Nemore. Some books he chose purely for their illustrations, such as a French and Latin Apocalypse and a model book of the 15th century. The oldest book in the collection is a late 12th-century copy of Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae. The catalogue effectively revises, expands, and replaces the 1922 catalogue of M.R. James.
ROSAMOND McKITTERICK is Reader in early medieval European history in the University of Cambridge; RICHARD BEADLEis lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge.
Table of Contents
- The Middle English manuscripts, Richard Beadle
- abbreviations
- short-title list of contents of text
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