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1000 years of royal books and manuscripts / edited by Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick.
- Title
- 1000 years of royal books and manuscripts / edited by Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick.
- Publication
- London : The British Library, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- 323 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles; 25 cm
- Summary
- "What role did books play in the lives of English monarchs and their families? Besides Alfred the Great, Edward IV, Henry VIII, and George III, which kings and queens appreciated books and amassed enormous libraries full of them? This well-illustrated volume presents a fresh and wide-ranging review of the evidence for royal interest in handwritten and printed books. Leading experts offer new perspectives on the involvement of England{u2019}s monarchs in the circulation and preservation of texts from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Some essays consider individual books or monarchs; others take a wider view of several centuries of evidence. At the heart of the volume is the remarkable array of royal books held by the British Library, including the Old Royal Library, presented to the nation by George II, and the King{u2019}s Library, presented by George IV. Illustrated in color throughout, 1000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts will appeal to anyone fascinated by the British monarchy as well as the country{u2019}s rich and extensive literary history."--Provided by publisher.
- Alternative Title
- One thousand years of royal books and manuscripts
- Thousand years of royal books and manuscripts
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-308) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The earliest English royal books / Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick -- 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 Frońska -- 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
- 9780712357081 (hbk.)
- 0712357084 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 858824778
- SCSB-10223489
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library