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Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries: Volume IV: Paisley-York

N R Ker author A J Piper editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:23rd Jan '92

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Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries: Volume IV: Paisley-York cover

The present volume completes the cataloguing of manuscripts. This impressive undertaking will be concluded with one further volume, which will contain addenda and extensive indexes to all the volumes. `a remarkable achievement of scholarship...The descriptions of the manuscripts are full and at the same time admirably concise...Any user of the work, whether his interests are palaeographical, iconographical, or textual, will be deeply grateful for the wealth of information contained in this volume'. Review of English Studies `will be invaluable not only for reference but for the comprehensive and immensely precise assurance that it will give to scholars in every field of medieval studies that nothing relevant to their purposes now lurks in unrecorded concealment'. English Historical Review

an outstanding monument of British scholarship ... No one working in the manuscript field needs now to be convinced of the value of MMBL, nor of the authority of Ker's words on any manuscript which passed through his hands * Times Literary Supplement *
a remarkable achievement of scholarship ... The descriptions of the manuscripts are full and at the same time admirably concise ... Any user of the work, whether his interests are palaeographical, iconographical, or textual, will be deeply grateful for the wealth of information contained in this volume. * Review of English Studies *

ISBN: 9780198181965

Dimensions: 242mm x 163mm x 44mm

Weight: 1270g

866 pages