Article: Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library.(Book review)

Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). xiv + 407 pp. ISBN o-19-926722-7. 65.00 [pounds sterling].

Michael Lapidge's E. A. Lowe Lectures, delivered at Oxford in 2002, are here published with five appendices and a catalogue, as well as an extensive bibliography, an index of (the many) manuscripts cited, and a general index. Lapidge is the highest authority in this field in the English-speaking world, and this volume presents the fruit of a career dedicated to a close study of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and their world of learning. The first of the five chapters offers an introduction to the background (and sources) of ...

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