The University and College Libraries of Cambridge
Clarke, Peter (ed.) (2002) The University and College Libraries of Cambridge, London, UK, The British Library in Association with The British Academy, 1004pp. (Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 10).
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The medieval university at Cambridge was a centre for the circulation of books. In complicated networks of acquisition and exchange, books were bought, borrowed, copied, and bequeathed. Colleges came to own collections of books for the use of their fellows, and in the late middle ages many colleges built library-rooms to house their books. Some colleges, notably Peterhouse, Gonville and Caius, and Pembroke, still retain large parts of their medieval collections. This volume collects for the first time all the medieval documents that refer to library holdings in both the medieval university and its colleges, documents as various as borrowing registers, inventories, and formal catalogues of various dates and degrees of sophistication. Also included is a substantial biographical section on individuals who gave or bequeathed books to Cambridge libraries, and where a will survives it is included as a document.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| ISBNs: | 0712347739 (hardback) |
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| Subjects: | Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science D History General and Old World > D History (General) |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Humanities > History |
| Item ID: | 48759 |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Oct 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:30 |
| Contributors: | Clarke, Peter (Editor) |
| Date: | 1 October 2002 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | The British Library in Association with The British Academy |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/48759 |
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