Volume I: to 1640

Elizabeth Leedham-Green
Darwin College, Cambridge

Teresa Webber
Trinity College, Cambridge

Contents and contributors:

• Introduction Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Teresa Webber;
• 1. The physical setting Richard Gameson and Claire Sargent;
• 2. Celtic Britain and Ireland in the early Middle Ages Padraig P. O Neill;
• 3. Anglo-Saxon England David Ganz;
• 4. Monastic and cathedral book collections in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries Teresa Webber;
• 5. The libraries of religious houses in the late Middle Ages David N. Bell;
• 6. College and university book collections and libraries Roger Lovatt;
• 7. Bishops and kings: private book collections in medieval England Jenny Stratford and Teresa Webber;
• 8. The medieval librarian Richard Sharpe;
• 9. Borrowing and reference: access to libraries in the late Middle Ages Peter J. Lucas;
• 10. The dispersal of the monastic libraries and the salvaging of the spoils James P. Carley;
• 11. Extending the frontiers: scholar collectors Julian Roberts;
• 12. Matthew Parker's manuscripts: an Elizabethan library and its use Timothy Graham;
• 13. Tools of the trade: universities and colleges Kristian Jensen;
• 14. Tools of the trade: major ecclesiastical libraries, from reformation to civil war C. B. L. Barr and David Selwyn;
• 15. Tools of the trade: clerical and parish libraries Arnold Hunt;
• 16. Tools of the trade: schools and schoolmasters (to c. 1550) Nicholas Orme;
• 17. Tools of the trade: school libraries (c. 1540 to 1640) William Barker;
• 18. Tools of the trade: common lawyers and the Inns of Court J. H. Baker;
• 19. Tools of the trade: medical libraries Peter Murray Jones;
• 20. Tools of the trade: heralds' libraries Pamela Selwyn;
• 21. 'The profession of a gentleman': books for the gentry and the nobility (c. 1560 to 1640) Pamela Selwyn and David Selwyn;
• 22. Libraries of the 'common sort' Margaret Spufford;
• 23. The libraries of the antiquaries (c. 1580-1640) and the idea of a national collection Richard Ovenden;
• 24. Library administration (c. 1475 to 1640) C. Y. Ferdinand;
• 25. Libraries and the organization of knowledge David McKitterick;
• Bibliography;
• Index of manuscripts;
• General index.