Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. The beginnings; 2. From Rotherham to Tunstal; 3. The library during the English Reformation; 4. The Restoration of the library in 1574; 5. Perne's work continued: 1577–98; 6. Futilities and frustrations, 1600–28; 7. Abraham Whelock; 8. Abraham Whelock continued; 9. Orientalia; 10. The Lambeth Library at Cambridge; 11. Some memorials of benefactors, 1653–9; 12. The work undone, 1659–64; 13. The library of Richard Holdsworth; 14. Henry Lucas and Tobias Rustat; 15. Peachey succeeds Dobson: Hacket's request; 16. Miscellaneous accessions, 1664–84; 17. From Robert Peachey to John Laughton; 18. Into the eighteenth century; Appendix; Index of manuscripts; General index.

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The first volume of the history of the Cambridge University Library examining its beginnings to the late seventeenth, early eighteenth century.