Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College: Manuscripts Part 1: Medieval

by Richard Beadle

Comprehensive itemisation and technical description of the medieval manuscripts in Pepys's Library.

No fewer than twenty-three of Pepys's thirty-eight medieval manuscripts contain Middle English texts, and date from the 14th and 15th centuries. Devotional tracts and religious poetry predominate, though there is also a corpus ofsecular poetry by Lydgate and Chaucer, and some scientific and medical material; a notable rarity is the Caxton Ovid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859913414
• ISBN13: 9780859913416
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.8" x 8.2"