The collection consists of one 'long essay' or dissertation entitled 'The growth of learning and the making of books in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria', submitted in 1968 to the Department of English at the University of Exeter. The dissertation takes the form of a bound typescript with inserted photograph and postcard illustrations.
Papers of Janet M. Land relating to libraries and books in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria
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- ReferenceGB 29 EUL MS 154
- Dates of Creation1968
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical DescriptionOne volume.
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Janet Mary Land was a student of English at the University of Exeter between 1965 and 1968. She graduated with a second-class Honours degree in 1968.
Arrangement
The dissertation is arranged into the following chapters: 1. Written sources of information concerning Roman and Anglo-Saxon England; 2. The establishment of the Christian Church in Anglo-Saxon England; 3. The growth of scholarship in Anglo-Saxon England; 4. Processes of illumination; 5. The Northumbrian School of manuscript illumination; 6. The life of the Venerable Bede; 7. Bede the writer, and his sources; 8. The manuscripts of Bede; 9. Medieval monastic libraries; 10. Northumbrian libraries in Bede’s age.
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Archivist's Note
Description compiled by Charlotte Berry, Archivist, 14 March 2005, and encoded by Karen Atkinson into EAD on 2 June 2005.
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Usual EUL restrictions apply.
Custodial History
Transferred from the Reserve Collection.
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