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Article: The Anglo-Saxon Library.(Book review)
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- Libraries and the Cultural Record
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- January 1, 2008
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The Anglo-Saxon Library. By Michael Lapidge. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 407 pp. $110.00. ISBN 0199267227.
In The Anglo-Saxon Library Michael Lapidge offers the first book-length study of the subject as well as what may be the first scholarly example of "palaeobibliothecography," defined by the author as the "study of ancient, but lost, libraries" (3). He attempts nothing less than the dual task of describing the Anglo-Saxon library and showing how this end is achieved. To accomplish these aims Lapidge qualifies the totality suggested in the volume's title to focus on the trade and transmission of "books acquired and arranged for the purposes of ...