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Richard Gameson

Manuscript Treasures of Durham Cathedral - UK Third Millennium Publishing 2010 - 175 28 cm

Includes indexes
col. ill. ;

This volume presents the highlights of the collection. Ranging from part os a 6th century Italian Bible to a 16th century account of monastic cathedral life compiled in the aftermath of the Reformation, the featured items include the 'Durham Gospels' (a sister manuscript to the Lindisfarne Gospels), the St-Calis or Carilef Bible (the first illuminated Romanesque Bible in england), a rare medical and astrological compilation, decorated Bolognese law-books, a Parisian Bible of the 13th century, and a decorated Oxfor compendium of the 14th. A general introducction traces the growth of the collection from the early days of Anglo-Saxon monasticism through to the Reformation.--Publisher

1906507120 9781906507121

2010

English


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