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This history of the books of Reading Abbey covers the period from the abbey's foundation to its dissolution, and follows up the dispersal of the book collections to c.1610. It provides valuable material on the ways in which books were used, and about the intellectual life of medieval monastery. Alan Coates makes an important contribution to our understanding of the fate of monastic books and book-collecting in the post-Dissolution period.brBrief History of Reading and its AbbeybrThe Fingall Cartulary Book ListbrAppendix A: Book Lists in the Fingall CartularybrA Comparison between the Twelfth-Century Collections and those of other HousesbrThe Palaeography of the Twelfth-Century ManuscriptsbrThe Book Collections from c. 1200 to the DissolutionbrAppendix B: List of Books Copied by Brother W. de. WicumbebrAppendix C: The Letter of Alured the SacristbrAppendix D: Lists in Oxford, St Johns College, MS 11brStudy at UniversitybrAppendix E: The Study of GreekbrThe Acquisition, Housing, and Management of the Book CollectionsbrThe Dispersal of the Books at the DissolutionbrPlan of Reading AbbeybrAppendix F: Principal Contents of Surviving Manuscripts and Printed BooksbrBibliography, Notes to the Plates, Indexbr