Parker Library on the web [electronic resource].

Imprint: Cambridge, UK : Corpus Christi College ; Stanford, CA : Stanford University Libraries

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Contributor: Parker Library (Corpus Christi College); Stanford University. Libraries & Academic Information Resources.

Summary: An interactive, web-based workspace designed to support use and study of the manuscripts in the historic Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The Parker Library's holdings of Old English texts accounts for nearly a quarter of all extant manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon, including the earliest copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 890), the Old English Bede and King Alfred's translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care. The Parker Library also contains key Anglo-Norman and Middle English texts ranging from the Ancrene Wisse and the Brut Chronicle to one of the finest copies of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. Other subjects represented in the collection are music, medieval travelogues and maps, bestiaries, royal ceremonies, historical chronicles and Bibles. The Parker Library holds a magnificent collection of English illuminated manuscripts, such as the Bury and Dover Bibles (c. 1135 and c. 1150) and the Chronica maiora by Matthew Paris (c. 1230-50). Scholars in a variety of disciplines - including historians of art, music, science, literature, politics and religion - find invaluable resources in the Library's collection.

Subjects: Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575 > Library > Catalogs.; Manuscripts, Medieval > Facsimiles.; Manuscripts, Medieval > Databases.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Facsimiles.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Databases.; Manuscripts, English (Old) > Facsimiles.; Manuscripts, English (Old) > Databases.; Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman > Facsimiles.; Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman > Databases.; Manuscripts, English (Middle) > Facsimiles.; Manuscripts, English (Middle) > Databases.; Parker Library (Corpus Christi College) > Catalogs.
Database topics: Medieval Studies; Religious Studies; Ancient Greek and Roman Culture

Beginning date: 2008
Title variation: Title bar title: Welcome to the Parker Library on the web
Vol/date range: Beta version available since 2008?; full site launched 2009.
Note: Title from home page (Stanford University site, viewed Sept. 28, 2009).

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