A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge

摘要

The latest in the sequence of Rod Thomson's catalogues of English libraries (they extend back to his description of Lincoln Cathedral manuscripts in 1989) describes the books of Peterhouse, Cambridge. As the fine historical introduction lays out, this is a truly unique collection, a substantial portion of the small College's medieval collection surviving more or less intact-with considerable sixteenth-century depradation of illumination-and displaying a house particularly given to theological study, and heavy on University staples. And unlike most College libraries, Peterhouse's has been little augmented since the Reformation.