Author: WRIGHT (Cyril Ernest)
Title: Fontes Harleiani. A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum.
Description: The British Museum. 1972. 4to, xxxv,480pp., 16 plates, orig. cloth, a fine copy. An inquiry into the origins of the manuscripts in the Harleian Collection. The introduction provides a short history of the collection, but the bulk of the work consists of two lists: the first arranged alphabetically by previous owner, place of production, etc.; the second giving the same information in bridged form, but arranged numerically.

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