A comprehensive scholarly account

• Brief History of Reading and its Abbey ; The Fingall Cartulary Book List ; Appendix A: Book Lists in the Fingall Cartulary ; A Comparison between the Twelfth-Century Collections and those of other Houses ; The Palaeography of the Twelfth-Century Manuscripts ; The Book Collections from c. 1200 to the Dissolution ; Appendix B: List of Books Copied by Brother W. de. Wicumbe ; Appendix C: The Letter of Alured the Sacrist ; Appendix D: Lists in Oxford, St Johns College, MS 11 ; Study at University ; Appendix E: The Study of Greek ; The Acqusition, Housing, and Management of the Book Collections ; The Dispersal of the Books at the Dissolution ; Plan of Reading Abbey ; Appendix F: Principal Contents of Surviving Manuscripts and Printed Books ; Bibliography, Notes to the Plates, Index

A comprehensive scholarly account

• Brief History of Reading and its Abbey ; The Fingall Cartulary Book List ; Appendix A: Book Lists in the Fingall Cartulary ; A Comparison between the Twelfth-Century Collections and those of other Houses ; The Palaeography of the Twelfth-Century Manuscripts ; The Book Collections from c. 1200 to the Dissolution ; Appendix B: List of Books Copied by Brother W. de. Wicumbe ; Appendix C: The Letter of Alured the Sacrist ; Appendix D: Lists in Oxford, St Johns College, MS 11 ; Study at University ; Appendix E: The Study of Greek ; The Acqusition, Housing, and Management of the Book Collections ; The Dispersal of the Books at the Dissolution ; Plan of Reading Abbey ; Appendix F: Principal Contents of Surviving Manuscripts and Printed Books ; Bibliography, Notes to the Plates, Index