A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Pembroke College, Cambridge :
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[Book]
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With a Hand List of the Printed Books to the Year 1500 /
First Statement of Responsibility
Montague Rhodes James.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Cambridge :
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Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (380 pages)
SERIES
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Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 detailed descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums are still of value to scholars today. James' catalogue of the manuscript holdings of Pembroke College was first published in 1905. Now reissued, it will be welcomed by librarians and researchers alike.