The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland Volume 1: To 1640

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-xx

• Introduction by Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Teresa Webber
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• pp. 1-10

The physical setting

• 1a - The medieval library (to c. 1450) by Richard Gameson
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• pp. 13-50

• 1b - The early modern library (to c. 1640) by Clare Sargent
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• pp. 51-66

Part One - The medieval library

• 2 - Celtic Britain and Ireland in the early middle ages by Pádraig P. Ó Néill
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• pp. 69-90

• 3 - Anglo-Saxon England by David Ganz
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• pp. 91-108

• 4 - Monastic and cathedral book collections in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries by Teresa Webber
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• pp. 109-125

• 5 - The libraries of religious houses in the late middle ages by David N. Bell
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• pp. 126-151

• 6 - College and university book collections and libraries by Roger Lovatt
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• pp. 152-177

• 7 - Bishops and kings: private book collections in medieval England by Jenny Stratford and Teresa Webber
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• pp. 178-217

• 8 - The medieval librarian by Richard Sharpe
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• pp. 218-241

• 9 - Borrowing and reference: access to libraries in the late middle ages by Peter J. Lucas
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• pp. 242-262

Part Two - Reformation, dissolution, new learning

• 10 - The dispersal of the monastic libraries and the salvaging of the spoils by James P. Carley
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• pp. 265-291

• 11 - Extending the frontiers: scholar collectors by Julian Roberts
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• pp. 292-321

• 12 - Matthew Parker’s manuscripts: an Elizabethan library and its use by Timothy Graham
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• pp. 322-342

Part Three - Tools of the trade

• 13 - Universities and colleges by Kristian Jensen
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• pp. 345-362

• 14 - Major ecclesiastical libraries: from Reformation to Civil War by C. B. L. Barr and David Selwyn
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• pp. 363-399

• 15 - Clerical and parish libraries by Arnold Hunt
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• pp. 400-419

• 16 - Schools and schoolmasters (to c. 1550) by Nicholas Orme
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• pp. 420-434

• 17 - School libraries (c. 1540 to 1640) by William Barker
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• pp. 435-447

• 18 - Common lawyers and the Inns of Court by J. H. Baker
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• pp. 448-460

• 19 - Medical libraries by Peter Murray Jones
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• pp. 461-471

• 20 - Heralds’ libraries by Pamela Selwyn
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• pp. 472-486

Part Four - Libraries for leisure

• 21 - ‘The profession of a gentleman’: books for the gentry and the nobility (c. 1560 to 1640) by Pamela Selwyn and David Selwyn
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• pp. 489-519

• 22 - Libraries of the ‘common sort’ by Margaret Spufford
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• pp. 520-526

• 23 - The libraries of the antiquaries (c. 1580–1640) and the idea of a national collection by Richard Ovenden
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• pp. 527-562

Part Five - Organisation and administration

• 24 - Library administration (c. 1475 to 1640) by C. Y. Ferdinand
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• pp. 565-591

• 25 - Libraries and the organization of knowledge by David McKitterick
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• pp. 592-615

• Select bibliography
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• pp. 616-640

• General index
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• pp. 641-682

• Index of manuscripts
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• pp. 683-688