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A. G. Rigg.
A Glastonbury Miscellany of the Fifteenth Century: A Descriptive Index of Trinity College, Cambridge, Ms. O.9.38.
Published: Oxford U.P., 1968.
Series: Oxford English Monographs.
SBN 198117132.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: the University Press, Oxford.
Size: 143x221x20mm.
Page count: vii,162pp.
Main language: English; some Latin and Middle English selections given without translation.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket has not been well treated, with its spine discoloured, some stains elsewhere, a roughened patch around its middle where some form of adhesive strip has been removed, and some wear at its edges and corners; the book has some spots of foxing to the page edges, but looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 491g.

How to order this book

This manuscript represents the varied tastes of a collector at an important turning point in the history of English literature, a miscellany containing nearly ninety texts of remarkable variety, prose and verse, religious & secular, serious and frivolous, long and short. This book provides a full descriptive inventory of the manuscript, with a few of the shorter, less well-known texts edited in full.

Contents: Descriptive index.
Appendices: Texts (mainly associated with Glastonbury); Later additions.

Introduction: 38pp
Notes: intro. only, at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 6pp (see indexes)
Indexes: First lines; Bibliographical; Manuscripts; General.

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