The Anglo-Saxon Library
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 January 2006
- ISBN 9780199267224
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages422 pages
- Size 224x145x28 mm
- Weight 637 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This invaluable study sets out the evidence for the nature and holdings of libraries in Anglo-Saxon England, from the sixth century to the eleventh. It is furnished with appendices which include editions of all surviving Anglo-Saxon book inventories, lists of those manuscripts exported from and imported into Anglo-Saxon England, and a catalogue of all classical and patristic works cited by Anglo-Saxon authors. The volume is concluded by a comprehensive index (combining the evidence of inventories, surviving manuscripts, and citations) of all classical and patristic writings known in England before 1100.
MoreLong description:
The cardinal role of Anglo-Saxon libraries in the transmission of classical and patristic literature to the later middle ages has long been recognized, for these libraries sustained the researches of those English scholars whose writings determined the curriculum of medieval schools: Aldhelm, Bede, and Alcuin, to name only the best known. Yet this is the first full-length account of the nature and holdings of Anglo-Saxon libraries from the sixth century to the eleventh.
The early chapters discuss libraries in antiquity, notably at Alexandria and republican and imperial Rome, and also the Christian libraries of late antiquity which supplied books to Anglo-Saxon England. Because Anglo-Saxon libraries themselves have almost completely vanished, three classes of evidence need to be combined in order to form a detailed impression of their holdings: surviving inventories, surviving manuscripts, and citations of classical and patristic works by Anglo-Saxon authors themselves.
After setting out the problems entailed in using such evidence, the book is provided with appendices containing editions of all surviving Anglo-Saxon inventories, lists of all Anglo-Saxon manuscripts exported to continental libraries during the eighth century and then all manuscripts re-imported into England in the tenth, as well as a catalogue of all citations of classical and patristic literature by Anglo-Saxon authors.
A comprehensive index, arranged alphabetically by author, combines these various classes of evidence so that the reader can see at a glance what books were known where and by whom in Anglo-Saxon England. The book thus provides, within a single volume, a vast amount of information on the books and learning of the schools which determined the course of medieval literary culture.
This book is an essential resource...
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Vanished Libraries of Classical Antiquity
Vanished Libraries of Anglo-Saxon England
Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (I): The Evidence of Inventories
Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (II): The Evidence of Manuscripts
Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (III): The Evidence of Citations
Conclusions
Appendix A: Six Inventories of Latin Books from Anglo-Saxon Libraries (Excluding Biblical and Liturgical Books)
Appendix B: Eighth-Century Inventories of Books from the Areas of the Anglo-Saxon Mission in Germany
Appendix C: Surviving Eighth-Century Manuscripts from the Area of the Anglo-Saxon Mission in Germany
Appendix D: Ninth-Century Manuscripts of Continental Origin Having Pre-Conquest English Provenance
Appendix E: Books Cited by the Principal Anglo-Saxon Authors
Catalogue of Classical and Patristic Authors and Works Composed before AD 700 and Known in Anglo-Saxon England
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
