TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richard Gameson
AU  - David Rollason
AU  - John Mckinnell
AU  - Dean of Durham
AU  - Anthony Ian Doyle
TI  - Manuscript Treasures of Durham Cathedral
SN  - 1906507120
PY  - 2010///
CY  - UK
PB  - Third Millennium Publishing
KW  - English
KW  - Manuscripts
KW  - History
N1  - 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
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