Mission Impossible? Dating the Catalog Manuscript, Acquisitions, and the Library Project

One longstanding set of questions that Stainforth editors have been unable to answer (among many such questions) relates to the origins of Francis Stainforth’s collecting project. When did he begin collecting books, and why? And relatedly, when did he begin cataloging his library in the manuscript catalog that is the fount of what we know … Continue reading Mission Impossible? Dating the Catalog Manuscript, Acquisitions, and the Library Project