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Title: The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17.
Author: M. R. James
Release Date: February 25, 2009 [EBook #28187]
Language: English
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[Illustration: HELPS FOR STUDENTS OF HISTORY
THE WANDERINGS AND HOMES OF MANUSCRIPTS
M. R. JAMES]
HELPS FOR STUDENTS OF HISTORY. No. 17
EDITED BY C. JOHNSON, M.A., AND J. P. WHITNEY, D.D., D.C.L.
THE WANDERINGS AND HOMES OF MANUSCRIPTS
BY
M. R. JAMES, LITT.D., F.B.A.
PROVOST OF ETON SOMETIME PROVOST OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
LONDON
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919
THE WANDERINGS AND HOMES OF MANUSCRIPTS
THE Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts is the title of this book. To have called it the survival and transmission of ancient literature would have been pretentious, but not wholly untruthful. Manuscripts, we all know, are the chief means by which the records and imaginings of twenty centuries have be
The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts
by Montague Rhodes James