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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
N. G. Wilson
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Description for A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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Corpus Christi College was founded at a time when universities were putting considerable effort into providing better facilities for the study of Greek and Hebrew. Bishop Richard Fox, the founder of Corpus Christi, and John Claymond, the college's first President, therefore ensured that the library should be adequately stocked with Greek printed books and manuscripts. In a famous letter to Claimond in June 1519, Erasmus predicted a great future for the College and alluded to its well-stocked library. Claymond gave the library more than half the present collection of Greek manuscripts, besides seven in Hebrew. His Greek books ... Read more
Corpus Christi College was founded at a time when universities were putting considerable effort into providing better facilities for the study of Greek and Hebrew. Bishop Richard Fox, the founder of Corpus Christi, and John Claymond, the college's first President, therefore ensured that the library should be adequately stocked with Greek printed books and manuscripts. In a famous letter to Claimond in June 1519, Erasmus predicted a great future for the College and alluded to its well-stocked library. Claymond gave the library more than half the present collection of Greek manuscripts, besides seven in Hebrew. His Greek books ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
98
Condition
New
Number of Pages
98
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843842873
SKU
V9781843842873
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Reviews for A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
It is hard to image a more magisterial catalogue than Nigel Wilson's volume [...] This catalogue should find a place on the shelves of research libraries, not simply as a source of information and images, but also as a model of comprehensiveness and [...] an account of the production and later use of these books.
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