A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College

This reissue contains volume 2 and the supplement to James' definitive catalogue of manuscripts at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Montague Rhodes James (Author)

9781108002479, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

448 pages
21.6 x 2.5 x 14 cm, 0.57 kg

M. R. James (1862–1936) is probably best remembered as a writer of chilling ghost stories, but he was an outstanding scholar of medieval literature and palaeography, who served both as Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and many of his stories reflect his academic background. His detailed descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums are still of value to scholars today. James' catalogue of the extensive manuscript holdings of Gonville and Caius College was first published in two volumes in 1907-8, and a supplement appeared in 1914. Now reissued in two volumes, it will be welcomed by librarians and researchers alike.

1. Preface
2. Notes of a kalendar of St Augustine's Canterbury in MS. 238
3. Supplementary notice of no. 715 by H. D. Hazeltine, M. A. (Hon), Emmanuel College
4. Corrigenda to Vol. I
5. Corrigenda to Vol. II
6. List of provenances of manuscripts, Monastic and other
6. List of donors of manuscripts
7. List of names of scribes
8. Dates of manuscripts anterior to cent. XVI
9. Manuscripts seen by Leland and Bale at Gonville Hall
10. Description of manuscripts, nos. 355 to 721
11. Unnumbered manuscripts
12. Supplementary notice of no. 405
13. Fragments from bindings
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]