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J.R.R. Tolkien : life and legend : an exhibition to commemorate the centenary of the birth of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

by Bodleian Library, Judith Priestman

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Originally written to accompany a 1994 Bodleian Library exhibition, this is a beautifully-illustrated and elegantly written testament to the cross-fertilization of European culture and tradition in the Middle Ages and early Modern period. The manuscripts and books presented here—including Ptolemy's "Cosmographia" and a Pilgrim's guide to the Holy Land—reveal the lively "trafficking of ideas" across the Continent.… (more)
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Originally written to accompany a 1994 Bodleian Library exhibition, this is a beautifully-illustrated and elegantly written testament to the cross-fertilization of European culture and tradition in the Middle Ages and early Modern period. The manuscripts and books presented here—including Ptolemy's "Cosmographia" and a Pilgrim's guide to the Holy Land—reveal the lively "trafficking of ideas" across the Continent.

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