Books by Montague Rhodes James

M. R. James' detailed and scholarly descriptive catalogue of over 80 medieval manuscripts in the University Library, Aberdeen, originally published in 1932, is still much sought after by librarians and researchers. It lists the material, dimensions, structure, date, provenance, contents and decoration of the manuscripts, and includes 27 plates.

In this monumental study, first published in 1903, M. R. James examines medieval catalogues of three important monastic libraries in Kent that were dispersed during the English Reformation. He succeeds in identifying many of the 'lost' manuscripts from those collections, now preserved among the holdings of modern universities and institutions.

M. R. James' detailed and scholarly descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts in the library of Lambeth Palace, co-authored with the Lambeth Librarian Claude Jenkins and originally published in five parts between 1930 and 1932, has not been superseded and is much sought after by librarians and researchers.

M. R. James' detailed and scholarly descriptive catalogue of manuscripts in the library of Eton College, originally published in 1895, has not been superseded and is much sought after by librarians and researchers.

M. R. James' detailed and scholarly descriptive catalogue of 183 Latin manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, originally published in 1921, is still much sought after by librarians and researchers. Volume 1 contains the text and Volume 2 consists of 187 plates illustrating varieties of scripts, decorations and covers.

M. R. James' ground-breaking study of the provenance of the 482 manuscripts in the world-renowned Parker Collection at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, first published in 1899, broke new ground in historians' understanding of medieval English intellectual life by focusing on individual monastic libraries and centres of learning.

M. R. James' catalogue of medieval manuscripts in the library of Lambeth Palace, first published in 1900, briefly incorporates the results of his research as to their history and previous owners. It is still much sought after by librarians and researchers.