Shelfmark
P.Rox.1928
Main entry--uniform title
Bestiary. Latin
Title
The bestiary : being a reproduction in full of the manuscript Ii.4.26 in the University Library, Cambridge, with supplementary plates from other manuscripts of English origin, and a preliminary study of the Latin bestiary as current in England / edited for the Roxburghe club by M. R. James ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford : Printed for the Roxburghe Club, by J. Johnson at the University Press, MCMXXVIII [1928].
Physical description
[12], 59, [1] p., [148] p. of plates, [2] p., [22] leaves of plates, xxxii p. : facsims. ; 33 cm.
Language
Text in English; facsimile text in Latin.
Note
"Catalogue of books presented to and printed by the Club": p. viii-xxxii
Note
Facsimile.
Note
20th century dark brown leather quarter-binding, with cloth covered boards; gilt top-edge.
Provenance
M. R. James's copy; ms. annotations; ms. notes on paper loosely inserted; autograph and typed letters addressed to M.R. James (one from A. Cowley, 15th Feb 1929; one from Oxford University Press printer, 15 Feb. 1929; one from Oxford University Press printer, 18th Feb 1929; one from W. Douglas Simpson, 1st March 1929; one from H.H.E. Craster, 11th June 1929); copy of 'The Bestiary in the University Library' by M.R. James (Aberdeen: the University Press, 1928) loosely inserted.
Subject
Subject
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Subject
Manuscripts, Latin Facsimiles
Subject
Bestiaries
Added entry--name
James, M.R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862 - 1936 editor, former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B44684