How to form a library / by H.B. Wheatley, F.S.A.

  • Henry B. Wheatley
Date:
1886
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to form a library / by H.B. Wheatley, F.S.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13. The Middle Age Poets and Romance- Writers. 14. The Latin Classics. 15. The Chronicles. 16. The Historical Writings of doubtful authority, commonly called Legends. ]\Iost of the manuscripts which composed the monastic libraries were destroyed at the Reformation.” Humphry Plantagenet Duke of Gloucester, whose fame has been so lasting as the ‘good Duke Humphry,’ was also a book-collector of renown ; but most of the old libraries we read about have left but little record of their existence: thus the Common Library at Guildhall, founded by Dick Whittington in 1420, and added to by John Carpenter, the Town Clerk of London, has been en- tirely destroyed, the books having, in the first instance, been carried away by Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset. Although, as we have seen from Mr. Hunter’s remarks, there was a consider- able amount of variety in the subjects of these manuscript collections, we must
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