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Sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar. / Very good and clean copy. - �The cardinal role of Anglo-Saxon libraries in the transmission of classical and patristic literature to the later middle ages has long been recognized, for these libraries sustained the researches of those English scholars whose writings determined the curriculum of medieval schools: Aldhelm, Rede, and Alcuin, to name only the best known. Yet this is the first full-length account of the nature and holdings of Anglo-Saxon libraries from the sixth century to the eleventh.� / CONTENTS: Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Vanished Libraries of Classical Antiquity -- 2. Vanished Libraries of Anglo-Saxon England -- 3. Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (I): The Evidence of Inventories -- 4. Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (II): The Evidence of Manuscripts -- 5. Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (III): The Evidence of Citations -- Conclusions -- Appendices -- A. Six Inventories of Latin Books from Anglo-Saxon Libraries -- B. Eighth-Century Inventories of Latin Books from the Area of the Anglo-Saxon Mission in Germany -- C. Surviving Eighth-Century Manuscripts from the Area of the Anglo-Saxon Mission in Germany -- D. Ninth-Century Manuscripts of Continental Origin Having Pre-Conquest English Provenance -- E. Latin Books Cited by the Principal Anglo-Saxon Authors -- Catalogue of Classical and Patristic Authors and Works Composed before AD 700 and Known in Anglo-Saxon England -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index. ISBN 9780199239696