Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral Library - 9780859913904

Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral LibraryAuthor(s): R.A.B. Mynors, Rodney M Thomson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9780859913904, 978-0859913904\nSynopsis\n227 manuscripts dating from the 8th- to the 15th-century.\n\nThe library at Hereford Cathedral is famous as one of the few surviving `chained libraries'; but the contents of the books secured to the seventeenth century presses are less well known. There are 227 western manuscripts, of whichabout half have been at the cathedral since before the Reformation. They range in date from the eighth to the fifteenth century, and include finely-illustrated patristic books of the twelfth century, a large collection of OxfordUniversity legal textbooks, and books of civil and canon law from the end of the thirteenth century. Over half the volumes survive in largely intact medieval bindings.\nThe catalogue, begun by the late Sir Roger Mynors and completed b.