The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. Volume 1, To 1640 [electronic resource] / edited by Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Teresa Webber.

Contributor Leedham-Green, E. S. editor.

ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Note:Volume I : To 1640 / edited by Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Teresa Webber -- Introduction / Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Teresa Webber -- The physical setting -- 1a. The medieval library (to c. 1450) / Richard Gameson -- 1b. The early modern library (to c. 1640) / Clare Sargent -- Part one : The medieval library -- 2. Celtic Britain and Ireland in the early middle ages / Padraig P. O Neill -- 3. Anglo-Saxon England / David Ganz -- 4. Monastic and cathedral book collections in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries / Teresa Webber -- 5. The libraries of religious houses in the late middle ages / David N. Bell -- 6. College and university book collections and libraries / Roger Lovatt -- 7. Bishops and kings : private book collections in medieval England / Jenny Stratford and Teresa Webber -- 8. The medieval librarian / Richard Sharpe -- 9. Borrowing and reference : access to libraries in the late middle ages / Peter J. Lucas -- Part two : Reformation, dissolution, new learning -- 10. The dispersal of the monastic libraries and the salvaging of the spoils / James P. Carley -- 11. Extending the frontiers : scholar collectors / Julian Roberts -- 12. Matthew Parker's manuscripts : an Elizabethan library and its use / Timothy Graham -- Part three : Tools of the trade -- 13. Universities and colleges / Kristian Jensen -- 14. Major ecclesiastical libraries : from reformation to Civil War / C.B.L. Barr and David Selwyn.

Note:15. Clerical and parish libraries / Arnold Hunt -- 16. Schools and schoolmasters (to c. 1550) / Nicholas Orme -- 17. School libraries (c. 1540 to 1640) / William Barker -- 18. Common lawyers and the inns of court / J.H. Baker -- 19. Medical libraries / Peter Murray Jones -- 20. Heralds' libraries / Pamela Selwyn -- Part four Libraries for leisure -- 21. The profession of a gentleman : books for the gentry and the nobility (c. 1560 to 1640) / Pamela Selwyn and David Selwyn -- 22. Libraries of the common sort / Margaret Spufford -- 23. The libraries of the antiquaries (c. 1580-1640) and the idea of a national collection / Richard Ovenden -- Part five : Organisation and administration -- 24. Library administration (c. 1475 to 1640) / C.Y. Ferdinand -- 25. Libraries and the organisation of knowledge / David Mckitterick.

Note:This volume is a survey of libraries in Britain and Ireland up to the Civil War. It traces the transition from collections of books without a fixed local habitation to the library, chiefly of printed books, much as we know it today. It examines changing patterns in the formation of book collections in the earlier medieval period, traces the combined impact of the activities of the mendicant orders and the scholarship of the universities in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the adoption of the library room and the growth of private book collections in the fourteenth and fifteenth. The volume then focuses upon the dispersal of the monastic libraries in the mid-sixteenth centuries, the creation of new types of library, and finally, the steps whereby the collections amassed by antiquaries came to form the bases of the national and institutional libraries of Britain and Ireland.

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