The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral Manuscripts and Fragments to C. 1200
by Gameson, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 071235008X
- ISBN 13
- 9780712350082
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: The Bibliographical Society; the British Library. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. 071235008X . 414 pp. Index of manuscripts; Index of people and places. Illustrated with coloured plates. Octavo. Baby blue dust jacket with medieval manuscript on vellum. Some slight edge curl to the DJ, book itself is clean and unmarked, lovely copy. Prof. Gameson has here described all Canterbury's pre-13th century manuscripts for the first time. Each is illustrated in colour. Highlights range from the oldest copies of the Alfredian translation of Gregory the Great's Dialogues and of Lanfranc's gloss on the Epistles, through fine liturgica, to an extraordinary copy of Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica... ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 414 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Leaf and Stone Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11760
- Title
- The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral Manuscripts and Fragments to C. 1200
- Author
- Gameson, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 071235008X
- ISBN 13
- 9780712350082
- Publisher
- The Bibliographical Society; the British Library
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- 071235008X, Canterbury Cathedral, Manuscripts, Bibliography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medieval Studies;
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About the Seller
Leaf and Stone Books
Biblio member since 2005
Toronto, Ontario
About Leaf and Stone Books
Formerly Greekdrama Books Specializing in classical, medieval and ancient languages, history and cultures; antiquarian and unusual books; and interesting used books. We also carry many early printed books, particularly in the subjects of classics and religion, including incunabula and manuscripts.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...