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A Descriptive Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum

By Montague Rhodes James

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
1108003095, 9781108003094
Google Books ID
J5P-PwAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
65 MB (68085326 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection
Edition
1
Pages
517\517
DPI
300
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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 descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums are still of value to researchers today. This volume describes the McClean Collection, bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1904 by Frank McClean, a Victorian polymath who was a civil engineer by profession but also pursued scientific research and the collection of antiquities, including the 201 manuscripts and 230 early printed books now in the Fitzwilliam Museum. The book is illustrated with 108 plates showing folios from the collection.

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