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The Bible in the Twelfth Century: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at the Houghton Library (Houghton Library Publications)
Laura Light
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Description for The Bible in the Twelfth Century: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at the Houghton Library (Houghton Library Publications)
Paperback. Catches the culture of the medieval book at its height, not only in Bibles but in brevaries, lectionaries, commentaries and works of the Doctors and Fathers of the Church. Num Pages: 120 pages, 25halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGC; HRCG; WCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 217. Weight in Grams: 452.
In the late 1980s, Laura Light undertook the monumental task of bringing up to the standards of modern scholarship the catalogue descriptions of the Houghton’s medieval manuscripts—more than 1,300 in all. Among the fruits of that project was an exhibition in the Library of twelfth century Biblical manuscripts.
Light’s catalogue catches the culture of the medieval book at its height, not only in Bibles but in breviaries, lectionaries, commentaries, and works of the Doctors and Fathers of the Church.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9780974396347
SKU
V9780974396347
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About Laura Light
Laura Light is a former manuscript cataloguer at the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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