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The Thorney Liber Vitae (London, British Library, Additional MS 40,000, fols 1-12r): Edition, Facsimile and Study
L Rollason
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Description for The Thorney Liber Vitae (London, British Library, Additional MS 40,000, fols 1-12r): Edition, Facsimile and Study
Hardback. First printed edition, with facsimile and studies, of a significant manuscript from medieval England. Editor(s): Rollason, Lynda. Num Pages: 387 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 24 colour illustrations, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 279 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1278.
First printed edition, with facsimile and studies, of a significant manuscript from medieval England. The Thorney liber vitae (BL, MS Add. 40,000, fols 1-12v) consists of many hundreds of names written in the front of a tenth-century gospel book. This liber vitae is one of only three such compilations surviving frommedieval England, the others being the Durham liber vitae (BL, MS Cotton Domitian A vii) and the New Minster liber vitae (BL, MS Stowe 944). Begun at Thorney abbey (Cambridgeshire) in the late eleventh century and continued into the late twelfth, it purports to be a record of the ... Read more
First printed edition, with facsimile and studies, of a significant manuscript from medieval England. The Thorney liber vitae (BL, MS Add. 40,000, fols 1-12v) consists of many hundreds of names written in the front of a tenth-century gospel book. This liber vitae is one of only three such compilations surviving frommedieval England, the others being the Durham liber vitae (BL, MS Cotton Domitian A vii) and the New Minster liber vitae (BL, MS Stowe 944). Begun at Thorney abbey (Cambridgeshire) in the late eleventh century and continued into the late twelfth, it purports to be a record of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
387
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783270101
SKU
V9781783270101
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Ref
99-15
About L Rollason
After teaching medieval history and archaeology, especially of the Church, to adult students, LYNDA ROLLASON co-edited the Durham Liber Vitae (2007) andthe Thorney Liber Vitae (2015); she has published a series of papers on medieval ecclesiastical history.
Reviews for The Thorney Liber Vitae (London, British Library, Additional MS 40,000, fols 1-12r): Edition, Facsimile and Study
The Thorney 'Liber Vitae' provides a model for how future researchers might wish to edit, analyze, and present similar manuscript sources. . . . [A]ny would-be editor, paleographer, and codicologist would do well to browse its pages.
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An invaluable research tool, one which will find a welcome place in all serious research libraries.
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SPECULUM
An invaluable research tool, one which will find a welcome place in all serious research libraries.
HISTORY
This ... Read more