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Title: The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts
Helps for Students of History, No. 17.
Author: M. R. James
Release Date: February 25, 2009 [EBook #28187]
Language: English
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HELPS FOR STUDENTS OF HISTORY
HELPS FOR STUDENTS OF HISTORY. No. 17
Edited by C. Johnson, M.A., and J. P. Whitney, D.D., D.C.L.
THE WANDERINGS AND
HOMES OF MANUSCRIPTS
BYM. R. JAMES, Litt.D., F.B.A.
PROVOST OF ETON
SOMETIME PROVOST OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
LONDON
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
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HOMES OF MANUSCRIPTS
The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts is the title of this book. To have called it the survival and transmission of
ancient literature would have been pretentious, but not wholly untruthful. Manuscripts, we all know, are the chief means by
which ...