Author: William Dunn MacrayPublisher:
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Pages : 390
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Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 159 - A.D. 1867
Author: William Dunn MacrayAnnals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867
Author: William Dunn MacrayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752440155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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Reproduction of the original: Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 by William Dunn Macray
Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 with a Preliminary Notice of the Earlier Library Founded in the Fourteenth Century
Author: Macray William DunnPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318020546
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Pages : 464
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867
Author: William Dunn MacrayPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A. D. 1598-A. D. 1867
Author: William Dunn MacrayAnnals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867
Author: William Dunn MacrayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752415908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 by William Dunn Macray
Annals of the Bodleian Library, 1598-1867
Author: William Dunn MacrayAnnals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1598-1867 ...
Author: William Dunn MacrayAnnals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1598-1867 ...
Author: William Dunn MacrayThe Manuscripts Club
Author: Christopher de HamelPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525559426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club. This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been. In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience.