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The John Rylands Library Manchester: Catalogue of a Selection of Mediæval Manuscripts and Jewelled Book Covers, Exhibited in the Main Library MCMXXXIX with introduction and seventeen facsimiles.
Publisher: Manchester U.P./John Rylands Library, 1939.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: not stated.
Size: 165x261x11mm.
Page count: text xi,61pp; plates 17pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: ex‑lib. King’s College London: covers very worn at the edges, but internally the book looks in good order; the usual library marks and stamps, but appears to be free of readers’ marks.

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Weight without packaging: 228g.

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Contents: catalogues 113 items under the following headings: Charters, diplomatic documents & seals, 12th-15th c.; Early scripts, 8th-12th c.; Cartularies & other ecclesiastical documents, 14th-16th c.; Chronicles & narratives, 13th-15th c.; Legal & administrative, 12th-17th c.; Biblical & liturgical, 10th-15th c.; Literary & miscellaneous; Royal mss.; Jewelled & metal book-covers.

Illustrations: 17 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 32pp (i. Mss in the Rylands Library; ii. Some characteristic features of mss of the Middle Ages).
Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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