Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral Library

by Rodney M. Thomson, R.A.B. Mynors, Hereford Cathedral

227 manuscripts dating from the 8th- to the 15th-century.

The library at Hereford Cathedral is famous as one of the few surviving chained libraries'; but the contents of the books secured to the seventeenth century presses are less well known. There are 227 western manuscripts, of whichabout half have been at the cathedral since before the Reformation. They range in date from the eighth to the fifteenth century, and include finely-illustrated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859913902
• ISBN13: 9780859913904
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.4" x 12.4"