Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Vanished Libraries of Classical Antiquity
3: Vanished Libraries of Anglo-Saxon England
4: Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (I): The Evidence of Inventories
5: Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (II): The Evidence of Manuscripts
6: Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (III): The Evidence of Citations
7: Conclusions
Appendix A: Six Inventories of Latin Books from Anglo-Saxon Libraries (Excluding Biblical and Liturgical Books)
Appendix B: Eighth-Century Inventories of Books from the Areas of the Anglo-Saxon Mission in Germany
Appendix C: Surviving Eighth-Century Manuscripts from the Area of the Anglo-Saxon Mission in Germany
Appendix D: Ninth-Century Manuscripts of Continental Origin Having Pre-Conquest English Provenance
Appendix E: Books Cited by the Principal Anglo-Saxon Authors
Catalogue of Classical and Patristic Authors and Works Composed before AD 700 and Known in Anglo-Saxon England
Index of Manuscripts
General Index

About the Author

Michael Lapidge was Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge (1991-8) and Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame (1999-2004); he is now Fellow Emeritus of Clare College, Cambridge. He has published widely on the literature of the Anglo-Saxons (both Old English and Latin). His most recent book was The Cult of St Swithun (OUP, 2003). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and Corresponding
Fellow of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften and of the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome).

Reviews

...this is a deeply learned study ... a masterly treatment of its subject. Richard Gameson, The Library For its sheer range and impeccable erudition, The Anglo-Saxon Library will likely long remain one of the books most needful to know for all serious scholars and students of Anglo-Saxon England. Andy Orchard, Notes and Queries Michael Lapidge has performed a signal service to scholarship for documenting so carefully the movement of books and scholars between England and the Continent...' Andy Orchard, Notes and Queries ...splendid volume, so evidently the product of decades of work and synthesized scholarship ... Andy Orchard, Notes and Queries ...this book is an asset in the library of any Anglo-Saxonist...[it] belongs to a set of essential reference works that provides a researcher with a measure of support in navigating the uncertainties of Anglo-Saxon learning. English Studies, Vol. 88, No. 1, Feb 2007 Its learning is immense... Tom Shippey, LRB