Cambridge University Library: A History from the Beginnings to the Copyright Act of Queen Anne

J C T Oates

ISBN 10: 0521306566 / ISBN 13: 9780521306560

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1986

Beschreibung

509 pages. Illustrations photos in b/w. Very good hardback in like dust jacket. Very tiny nick to top of front cover. Of all the departments in the University of Cambridge, the University Library is by far the oldest. Oates traces its evolution in its first three and a half centuries, from its hesitant beginnings to its designation as a place of copyright deposit in the legislation of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He pays special attention to benefactors, on whom the Library was almost entirely dependent during the Reformation, but also to its subsequent recovery and dramatic Cambridge University Library: A History from the Beginnings to the Copyright Act of Queen Anne. J. C. T. Oates. Cambridge University Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Authoritative history of Cambridge University Library, covering its origins through to 1709. Includes bibliographical references and illustrations. Very good in like dust jacket, clean and unmarked.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers HSH05088

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Cambridge University Library: A History from the Beginnings to the Copyright Act of Queen Anne
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521306566
• ISBN-13: 9780521306560
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Literature
  • Social History

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Inhaltsangabe

The first volume of the history of the Cambridge University Library examining its beginnings to the late seventeenth, early eighteenth century.

Reseña del editor

Of all the departments in the University of Cambridge, the University Library is by far the oldest. Oates traces its evolution in its first three and a half centuries, from its hesitant beginnings to its designation as a place of copyright deposit in the legislation of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He pays special attention to benefactors, on whom the Library was almost entirely dependent during the Reformation, but also to its subsequent recovery and dramatic expansion in the seventeenth century. The Anglo-Saxon manuscripts given by Archbishop Matthew Parker in 1574 and the sixth-century Codex Bezae, given in 1581, are among the university's most celebrated possessions; but the author devotes no less space to those who encouraged such gifts, to other collections (some exotic and some, such as Richard Holdsworth's library, enormous) and to the prolonged negotiations that frequently preceded their arrival at Cambridge. This is the first of a two-volume history of the Library. The second, by David McKitterick, deals with the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.