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The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: Texts, Owners and Readers

By Ralph Hanna (Editor), Thorlac Turville-Petre (Editor), Alison Stones (Contribution by), Alixe Bovey (Contribution by), Derek Pearsall (Contribution by), Dorothy Johnston (Contribution by), Gavin Cole (Contribution by), Ralph Hanna (Contribution by), Rob Lutton (Contribution by), Thorlac Turville-Petre (Contribution by)
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By Ralph Hanna (Editor), Thorlac Turville-Petre (Editor), Alison Stones (Contribution by), Alixe Bovey (Contribution by), Derek Pearsall (Contribution by), Dorothy Johnston (Contribution by), Gavin Cole (Contribution by), Ralph Hanna (Contribution by), Rob Lutton (Contribution by), Thorlac Turville-Petre (Contribution by)
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A survey of the history, holdings, decoration, and conservation of one of England's finest medieval libraries, with full catalogue.

The Willoughby family, from Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, built up an extensive medieval library, including the notable Wollaton Antiphonal; theirs is the largest surviving library gathered by a gentry family of the period, the product of a single acquisitive burst, beginning around 1460 and mainly completed at about the time of the Dissolution in 1540. The manuscr...

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