Only one printed book seems to survive from the Benedictine Abbey of St Augustine: a 1496 copy of Boethius at the Bodleian Library
Wisbech, Wisbech & Fenland Museum, shelfmark C.3.8. Inscription: ‘liber comparatus per monachum ecclesie xiĬant’ bachalarium in theologia precii –- vii s’. Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 1495.Ĭhichester, Cathedral, shelfmark Case B 04. iiij d.(?): ‘liber dompni Edwardi Bockyng monachi ecclesie x i cant’ ordinis sancti benedicti’. Inscriptions: ‘Liber dompni Thome goldstone monachi ecclesie x i cant’ ordinis sancti benedicti : ex dono dompni Edwardi bockyng monachi eiusdem ecclesie et ordinis’.Īnother inscription, scored through, of D. Venice: Johannes Emericus, de Spira, for Lucantonio Giunta, 1500. Just three of its books are recorded in the database as surviving elsewhere: So far as is known, none of the printed books of the medieval library of Christ Church Cathedral Priory survive in the modern library at Canterbury. Of suppressed abbeys with large medieval libraries, only two printed books are recorded as surviving from Glastonbury and one from St Albans. Printed books do survive from the monasteries which were suppressed at the Dissolution. Hereford Cathedral still owns 22 of its late-medieval printed books none are recorded as surviving elsewhere. Selection of ‘Durham’ as the provenance and ‘Durham’ as the present-day location shows that Durham Cathedral still has 35 of the printed books which were in the library of the Priory at the time of the Dissolution of the monasteries however, a further 70 Durham printed books survive in other libraries, mainly in England. The pattern of survival of printed books can be very varied. Overall, the MLGB3 database records 446 printed books surviving from monastic libraries. The database has an Advanced Search facility with an option of searching for printed items only, excluding manuscripts.
The new online database of Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, based on the work of Neil Ker in his Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (second edition 1964, supplement 1987) and the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues (1990– ) is now available in a beta version at. It is still the case that relatively few British libraries have fully researched and made available the provenances of items in their collections, though this situation is slowly improving. It is not easy to document this process from surviving books as many must survive without any indication of their original owner, whether personal or institutional. Many institutional libraries were starting to add printed books to their collections and were even discarding manuscript copies from their shelves in favour of the new ‘modern’ products of the printing press. By the year 1500, the printing industry was over forty years old and had spread to all the major centres of Europe.
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