Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
I just received the following email from Allington Books. Their updates are generally quite interesting. I thought you might want to take a look at their specials of the month. Enjoy!
"We have updated our Weekly Sale List. Items on the list normally change about once per week and typically are marked down by 20% to 60%.
This week, more than 50 items are discounted 70%. Please feel free to share this Sale List with your friends and fellow collectors.
Unless otherwise specifically stated, all books are first printings of first editions for the country of origin and, of course, are subject to prior sale as well as to being put on hold for a customer's consideration. Orders sent to an address in North Carolina will be charged the applicable sales tax.
The Discounts offered in the Sale List may not be used in combination with any other discounts.
Here is the link to this week's Sale List:
http://www.allingtonbooks.com/shop/allington/category/SALE%20LIST.html
(You also can locate the Sale List at any time under "Browse Categories" on our Home Page at www.allingtonbooks.com).
Payment is due at purchase. Items are returnable for a refund as long as we receive notice of the return within 3 days of Buyer's receipt of the item, and then receive the item in the same condition as delivered to Buyer within 15 days of its delivery to Buyer.
Photographs in addition to those on our site are available on request. (Additional photographs, including author signatures where present, are with the ABE listings for these books -- however, to obtain the Sale List Price, you must order at www.allingtonbooks.com.)
With Thanks and
Best Wishes,
Stephen
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
Unprecedented Collection of Middle English Texts on Deposit at the Beinecke Library
51 Medieval English Texts Now Available for Study at the Beinecke
Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya has deposited on long-term loan at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University his collection of western medieval manuscripts, which includes the largest and most comprehensive privately owned collection of Middle English texts. Professor Takamiya has lent the collection to the library so that researchers and students can study it.
"Now that I have had the satisfaction of collecting and studying these manuscripts for so long, it is high time to think of their future in a secure home, where they will be easily accessible to international scholars and students," said Professor Takamiya. "I am impressed by the Beinecke Library’s ambitious research programs and I think they have both the expertise and energy to use the collection to great advantage."
Assembled over 40 years, the collection boasts 51 medieval English vernacular texts of literary, historical, scientific, and cultural significance.
Highlights of the collection include three copies of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, among the last copies in private hands, including the lavishly illuminated Devonshire Chaucer, as well as a copy of Chaucer’s Astrolabe, a treatise on the navigation tool that he wrote for his son, Lewis. It also includes a rare copy of John of Mandeville’s Travels, several Wycliffite Bibles (early translations of the Bible into English), the B-version of the William Langland’s Piers the Plowman, several copies of John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes, and numerous roll chronicles and prayer rolls.
"We are tremendously grateful to Professor Takamiya for entrusting the library to share his extraordinary collection with scholars," said Ray Clemens, Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at the Beinecke Library. "His decision to lend these manuscripts is an enormous boon to medieval scholarship at Yale and throughout the world."
Professor Takamiya began seriously collecting manuscripts while he was a graduate student at Cambridge University 1975-1978. He taught for many years at Japan’s prestigious Keio University, his alma mater, where he is professor emeritus. He has authored many publications and received honorary doctorates from the University of Sheffield and the University of Glasgow.
The works can be found in the Yale University Library’s electronic catalog, Orbis, at orbis.library.yale.edu. A complete list of materials in the collection is available on our website.
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