Cambridge University Library: A History: From the Beginnings to the Copyright Act of Queen Anne (Paperback)

J.C.T. Oates

ISBN 10: 0521118336 / ISBN 13: 9780521118330

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009

Beschreibung

Paperback. 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. Oates traces Cambridge University Library's 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. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Cambridge University Library: A History: From the Beginnings to the Copyright Act of Queen Anne (Paperback)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521118336
• ISBN-13: 9780521118330
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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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.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.