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?
Thanks in advance,
Clint
Clinton Atchley
University of Washington
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On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Many of the twelfth-century Great Bibles, such as the Winchester and Bury St.
> Edmunds Bibles, were apparently intended for reading in the monastic
> refectory during meailtime: they resided permanently on or near the lectern
> provided for that purpose, and a number of them are "scored for reading",
> with tonic accents on the emphasized syllables of difficult or unfamiliar
> words, such as Hebrew names. That use isn't really liturgical, of course,
> but...Elizabeth McLachlan, Art History, Rutgers.
>
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