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Cataloging Medieval And Renaissance Manuscripts: A Review Article, Richard Clement
Cataloging Medieval And Renaissance Manuscripts: A Review Article, Richard Clement
Richard W. Clement
Until recently it could have been argued with much justification that the cataloging of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States began and ended with Seymour De Ricci's Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40) and Supplement (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962). Of course, many excellent catalogs were produced before the Census and have been produced since (although most are of a specialized nature), yet the Census and its Supplement must be regarded as the one great landmark in cataloging in this country. It was the …
Thomas James' Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis: An Early Printed Union Catalog, Richard Clement
Thomas James' Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis: An Early Printed Union Catalog, Richard Clement
Richard W. Clement
Thomas James (1572-1629), first Keeper of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, produced the first printed union catalog of manuscripts. The Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis (1600) covers the manuscript holdings of the colleges of the two universities at Oxford and Cambridge. James's methods in dealing systematically with each codex are illustrated by comparing the Ecloga with the 1589 shelflist of Corpus Christi Oxford, and with the 1574/75 register of Matthew Parker's library at Corpus Christi Cambridge. The elements of the Ecloga main entries are analyzed and discussed, as are the indices that provided the necessary access points to the collections.
Librarianship And Polemics: The Career Of Thomas James (1572-1629), Richard Clement
Librarianship And Polemics: The Career Of Thomas James (1572-1629), Richard Clement
Richard W. Clement
Thomas James is well known as the first librarian of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and the correspondence from Sir Thomas Bodley to James is justly celebrated in what it tells us of the details of library management in this period. Unfortunately, modern library historians have tended to look at James only as a librarian and have ignored or dismissed his scholarly and polemical works and activities. Yet James's librarianship was part of polemical scholarship, as indeed was the foundation of the Bodleian Library itself. If we are to understand the nature of librarianship in England in the early seventeenth …
King Alfred And The Latin Manuscripts Of Gregory's Regula Pastoralis, Richard Clement
King Alfred And The Latin Manuscripts Of Gregory's Regula Pastoralis, Richard Clement
Richard W. Clement
King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory the Great's 'Liber Regulae Pastoralis' has long been recognized by students of Anglo-Saxon literature as one of the earliest and greatest monuments of Old English prose. Alfred's first translation, commonly referred to as the 'Pastoral Care,' has been the focus of much scholarly attention by historians, philologists, and literary critics. Historians have seized upon the work more for Alfred's two prefaces and what they tell us of Ninth-century England than for the translation itself, but nonetheless the mode of translation is not without its biographical and historical implications. Philologists on the other hand have …
The Frontier In Books, Richard Clement
The Frontier In Books, Richard Clement
Richard W. Clement
Unique among contemporary Western nations, the American national identity was created from present and living memory, unlike the English modern national identity, which was created out of distant memories from an era many centuries past. The English visions, which hearkened back to Anglo-Saxon England and the mythical Arthurian realms, were mediated by a small group of scholars who alone could understand the ancient languages. The books those scholars wrote were then read by a narrow circle of educated people who reinterpreted the ancient histories and myths for the general public, and in time the sense of what medieval England had …
Closing Remarks, Richard Clement
Welcome And Introduction, Richard Clement, Raymond Coward
Welcome And Introduction, Richard Clement, Raymond Coward
Richard W. Clement
No abstract provided.
The Library As Publisher: Increasing Library Relevance Through Institutional Repository Services, Richard Clement
The Library As Publisher: Increasing Library Relevance Through Institutional Repository Services, Richard Clement
Richard W. Clement
No abstract provided.