The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. Volume 1, To 1640 / edited by Elisabeth L...
The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. Volume 1, To 1640 / edited by Elisabeth L...
The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. Volume 1, To 1640 / edited by Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Teresa Webber. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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English
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1 online resource (xx, 688 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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online resource
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Volume I : To 1640 / edited by Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Teresa Webber -- Introduction / Elisabeth Leedham-Green and 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. Ce...
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 /...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2006.
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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 combine...
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The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. Volume 1, To 1640 / edited by Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Teresa Webber. [electronic resource]
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BOOK
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74VKVZRV2eXl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVZRV2eXl
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1-139-05530-5
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027.041
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991023970918202626
