At 09:48 24.09.98 -0700, you wrote:
>Can anyone (Elizabeth?) point me to sources which might give me
>information about the monastery library at Bury St. Edmunds? Do we know
>what books this particular library contained? Did the great fire in
>1465 affect the library? Do we know what survived and how these books
>were dispersed during/after the dissolution of the monastery? Any
>catalogues?
Dear Clint,
I suppose that John Boston of Bury (early 15th century), who compiled what
we might call the first COPAC or collective catalogue of libraries in
England (_Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesiae_, referencing approximately 700
authors, with biographic data, found in 193 libraries), can supply some of
the information you want. Parts of the catalogue (preserved in a 17th
centh. transcript, Cambr. Univ. Libr. Add. 3470, formerly Phillipps 10428)
were printed by Thomas Tanner, _Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica_, London
1748; see R. A. B. Mynors, "The Latin Classics known to Boston of Bury",
in: _Fritz Saxl 1890-1948: A Volume of Memorial Essays_, ed. D. J. Gordon,
Edinburgh 1957, p.199-217. My source is Helmut Gneuss, "Englands
Bibliotheken im Mittelalter und ihr Untergang", in: _Festschrift fu"r
Walter Hu"bner_, ed. D. Riesner & H. Gneuss, Berlin 1964, p.91-121, p.104s.
Probably a bit dated, but I got the book for DM 2.
Otfried
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