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Dear William,

Thanks very much for getting back to me, I will pass this information on to the student.

Many thanks

Rachel

Rachel White

Information Consultant (Drama, Theatre & Dance, English, Media Arts and CeDAS)

The Library, Academic Services

Davison Building

Royal Holloway

University of London

Egham

Surrey

TW20 0EX

Tel: 01784 414017

www.royalholloway.ac.uk/library

From: Discussion list for Arts and Humanities Information Professionals [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Farrell, William J.B. (Dr.)
Sent: 22 February 2018 11:37
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Subject: Re: Help with student enquiry

Dear Rachel,

There is the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain database http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Although it is not of personal ownership. You try searching the IHR Library catalogue for printed inventories. They would probably let an MA student in and use the collections. There was a blog post recently on their holdings https://blog.history.ac.uk/2018/02/home-in-the-ihr-library-inventories-in-the-library-collection/

Kind regards,

William Farrell

Dr William Farrell,

Research Services,

University of Leicester Library

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Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 8:51:11 AM
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Subject: Help with student enquiry

Hi all

I was wondering if anyone could help with an enquiry I have received from a Master student who is studying Medieval Literature.

She is particularly interested in the theme of literacy in the Medieval Period (1300-1500) and wants to research the ownerships of book collections i.e. who owned collections, did they use them for a particular purpose, did they lend these out to others, what happened to the collections when they died etc.

She is really keen to find inventory lists of collections from private houses or religious institutions, she has found numerous secondary research that mentions these particular inventories but actually wants to view these original documents.

We have found some information on British History Online and it seems that the London Metropolitan Archives holds some content. Has anyone come across a similar query before or has any knowledge of digitized collections that might hold something similar, failing that an institutions that would have the original content that she could go and visit.