Research Catalog
Treasures of Durham University Library / edited by Richard Gameson.
- Title
- Treasures of Durham University Library / edited by Richard Gameson.
- Author
- Durham University Library
- Publication
- London : Third Millennium, 2007.
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Book/Text | Request in advance | Z921.D98 D87 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Gameson, Richard
- Description
- 159 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This books covers the historic core of the collection, which consists of over seventy thousand rare books and manuscripts printed before 1850, is the library assembled by John Cosin, Bishop of Durham (1660-1672) and the more recent deposit of the library from Bamburgh Castle. The collection ranges from late antique papyri to modern literary manuscripts, as well as embracing substantial archival and photographic materials. The medieval manuscripts include the best-preserved service-book produced in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest, and a collection of the works of Thomas Hoccleve that was transcribed by the poet himself; while amongst the modern literary manuscripts are extracts from Kilvert's Diary and letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1903942748
- 9781903942741
- OCLC
- 181599347
- SCSB-12831857
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library