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Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800–1200. Ed. by Eric Kwakkel. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 2015. 224 pp. €39.50. isbn 978 90 8728 226 4. Another compact title in the series Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture from Leiden, this collection of essays explores the production and use of medieval manuscripts containing classical Latin texts. Includes: E. Kwakkel, ‘Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800–1200: An Introduction’; M. Teeuwen, ‘Carolingian Scholarship on Classical Authors: Practices of Reading and Writing’; R. G. Babcock, ‘The Transmission of Tibullus in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries’; I. O'Daly, ‘Diagrams of Knowledge and Rhetoric in Manuscripts of Cicero's De Inventione’; E. Kwakkel, ‘Classics on Scraps: Classical Manuscripts Made from Parchment Waste’; D. T. Gura, ‘Living with Ovid: The Founding of Arnulf of Orléans' Thebes’. Reading and the Victorians. Ed. by Matthew Bradley and Juliet John. Farnham: Ashgate. 2015. 180 pp. £60. isbn 978 1 4094 4080 2.