Medieval learning and literature : essays presented to Richard William Hunt by Alexander, J.J.G. ; Gibson, M.T - 1976

Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1976. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xii, [1], ,454, [1] pp, 28 plates. A collection of essays, principally in English, but including some in French and German. Contents: Die Hofbibliothek unter dem Frommen, by Bernhard Bischoff; The beginnings of Salisbury Cathedral Library, by Neil Ripley Ker; Describing medieval bookbindings, by Graham Pollard; The Florilegium Angelicum: its origin, content and influence, by Richard Hunter Rouse and Mary Ames Rouse; The influence of the concepts of Ordinatio and Compilatio on the development of the book, by Malcolm Beckwith Parkes; A ninth-century manuscript from Fleury: Cato de senectute cum Macrobio, by Bruce Charles Barker-Benfield; The Graz and Zurich apocalypse of Saint Paul: an independent medieval witness to the Greek, by Theodore Silverstein; Some poems attributed to Richard of Cluny, by Alexander Brian Scott; La Tradition manuscrite des 'Quaestiones Nicolai peripatetici' (Anon.); The return of Petronius to Italy, by Albinia Catherine de la Mare; Master Vacarius and the beginning of an English academic tradition, by Richard William Southern; Peter of Corbeil in an English setting, by Eleanor Rathbone; Oxford University Sermons, 1290-1293, by Beryl Smalley; Nicholas Trevet, Historian, by Ruth Josephine Dean; Oxford academical halls in the Later Middle Ages, by Alfred Brotherston Emden; An unnoticed letter from Bessarion to Lorenzo Valla, by Lotte Minne Labowsky; E cathena et carcere: the imprisonment of Amaury de Montford, 1276, by Leonard Eugene Boyle; Instructions for a devout and literate layman, by William Abel Pantin; A bibliography of the published writings of R. W. Hunt, by Susan Penelope Hall. Very Good in price-clipped dustwrapper, which is slightly faded around the spine-panel.