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The Library of Peterborough Abbey: Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, Volume 8 (British Library - Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues)

This volume brings together every catalogue and book-list to survive from the library of Peterborough Abbey, one of the great monastic houses of medieval England. Download The Library of Peterborough Abbey: Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, Volume 8 (British Library - Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The lists range in date from the tenth-century bequest of Bishop pthelwold of Winchester (the first such record to survive from England) to the select list of titles recorded by John Leland prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries. A catalogue of the early twelfth century records 61 titles, and may conceivably be a record of what had survived the flames of a disastrous fire in 1116. A long list of abbatial bequests to the library covers the years 1177-1391 and includes the important donation of Abbot Benedict (1177-1193). The chief catalogue to survive is the so-called Matriculariu Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.