| CHAPTER IV: BOOK-MAKING AND COLLECTING IN THE RELIGIOUS
HOUSES Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages | ||
"For if hevene be on this erthe . and ese to any soule,
It is in cloistere or in score . be many skilles I fynde;
For in cloistre cometh no man . to chide ne to fighte,
But alle is buxolllllesse there and bokes . to rede and to
lerne."
Piers Plowman, B. x. 300
| CHAPTER IV: BOOK-MAKING AND COLLECTING IN THE RELIGIOUS
HOUSES Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages | ||