TY - CHAP
T1 - Early Modern Print Technologies
AU - Roebuck, Thomas
PY - 2024/6
Y1 - 2024/6
N2 - In 1632 the Mayor and officials of the town of King’s Lynn in Norfolk, not far from Cambridge, decided to invest in establishing a library for the town’s principal church, St Margaret’s. They had £73 to spend on buying books which would form the core of the church’s – and the town’s – new library. A splendid vellum Donors’ Book for the library, prepared by the cleric and scholar John Arrowsmith (1602-59), itemizes each of the books they bought, providing a fascinating witness to the books which were considered of fundamental importance for an educated church community in this period, one that was situated outside both England’s universities and the metropolitan centre of London.
AB - In 1632 the Mayor and officials of the town of King’s Lynn in Norfolk, not far from Cambridge, decided to invest in establishing a library for the town’s principal church, St Margaret’s. They had £73 to spend on buying books which would form the core of the church’s – and the town’s – new library. A splendid vellum Donors’ Book for the library, prepared by the cleric and scholar John Arrowsmith (1602-59), itemizes each of the books they bought, providing a fascinating witness to the books which were considered of fundamental importance for an educated church community in this period, one that was situated outside both England’s universities and the metropolitan centre of London.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105011912299&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781009425490
T3 - Cambridge Themes in British Literature and Culture
SP - 199
EP - 212
BT - Europe in British Literature and Culture
A2 - Rau, Petra
A2 - Rossiter, William T.
PB - Cambridge University Press
ER -