English Medieval Books: The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal
This history of the books of Reading Abbey covers the period from the abbey's foundation to its dissolution, and follows up the dispersal of the book collections to c.1610. It provides valuable material on the ways in which books were used, and about the intellectual life of medieval monastery. Alan Coates makes an important contribution to our understanding of the fate of monastic books and book-collecting in the post-Dissolution period.
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This history of the books of Reading Abbey covers the period from the abbey's foundation to its dissolution, and follows up the dispersal of the book collections to c.1610. It provides valuable material on the ways in which books were used, and about the intellectual life of medieval monastery. Alan Coates makes an important contribution to our understanding of the fate of monastic books and book-collecting in the post-Dissolution period.
List of PlatesList of FiguresPrincipal Abbreviations and ConventionsNotes on the PlatesIntroduction11Brief History of Reading and its Abbey52The Fingall Cartulary Book List19Appendix ABook Lists in the Fingall Cartulary253A Comparison between the Twelfth-century Collections and those of Other Houses374The Palaeography of the Twelfth-century Manuscripts465The Book Collections from c.1200 to the Dissolution61Appendix BList of Books Copied by Bro. W. de Wicumbe81Appendix CLetter of Alured the Sacrist83Appendix DLists in Oxford, St. John's Coll., MS 11846Study at University87Appendix EThe Study of Greek1087The Acquisition, Housing, and Management of the Book Collections1138The Dispersal of the Books at the Dissolution122Appendix FThe Surviving Manuscripts and Printed Books143Bibliography171Indexes191
