A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Merton College, Oxford: With a Description of the Greek Manuscripts by N. G. Wilson

by Rodney M. Thomson and N.G. Wilson

Descriptive catalogue provides a crucial guide to one of the most important repositories of medieval manuscrips.

Merton College, Oxford, one of the oldest colleges in the University, was founded in 1264. Its library contains some 328 complete medieval manuscript books (plus several hundred fragments in, or extracted from, the bindings of early printed books), dating from the ninth to the late fifteenth century. Most of them came to the College...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843841886
• ISBN13: 9781843841883
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 5.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.6" x 12.4"