The Sources of Archbishop Parker's Collection of Mss. at Corp... - 9781108011341

The Sources of Archbishop Parker's Collection of Mss. at Corpus Christi College, CambridgeWith a Reprint of the Catalogue of Thomas Markaunt's Library\nAuthor(s): Montague Rhodes James\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108011341, 978-1108011341\nSynopsis\nM. R. James [tel] is probably best remembered as a writer of chilling ghost stories, but he was an outstanding scholar of medieval literature and palaeography, who served both as Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and many of his stories reflect his academic background. His detailed descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums are still of value to scholars today. In this ground-breaking book, first published in 1899, James analysed 482 manuscripts in the renowned Parker Collection at Cambridge for evidence of their provenance. James argued that by discovering wha.