Johnston, Cynthia

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Collecting the past: British collectors and their collections from the…

by Johnston, Cynthia, Burrows, Toby

fromRoutledge Focus

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"Today's libraries and museums are heavily indebted to the passions and obsessions of numerous individual collectors who devoted their lives to amassing collections of books, manuscripts, artworks, and other culturally significant objects. Collecting the Past brings together the…

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Collecting the past. British collectors and their collections from the 18th to the 20th centuries

by Johnston, Cynthia, Burrows, Toby

fromRoutledge Research in Museum Studies

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Today's museums and libraries are heavily indebted to the passions and obsessions of numerous individual collectors who devoted their lives to amassing collections of books, manuscripts, artworks, and other culturally significant objects. 'Collecting the Past' brings together th…

The development of penflourishing in manuscripts produced in the thirteenth century is a significant factor in the design and aesthetic of the central and late medieval book. The rise of commercial production, undertaken by lay professionals in urban centres, is associated with …