Making Books in Fifteenth-Century Cambridge: William Dyngley's Patristic Project

by Ann Eljenholm Nichols

Richly illustrated venture into book production in Cambridge.

William Dyngley (Peterhouse, 1393-1441), known for his personal library of at least 29 manuscripts, was primarily an editor. In the second decade of the fifteenth century, he began a major patristic project that ultimately comprised eight volumes of Augustine of Hippo, anthologies of Origin, Ambrose and Jerome, and a patristic miscellany. Dyngley also constructed thirty-five indexes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1914049292
• ISBN13: 9781914049293
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: York Medieval Press
• Length: 288 Pages