Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages

From the Porkington MS.; this treatise has been printed in Early Engish Miscellanies, ed. J. O. Halliwell, for the Warton Club (1855), p. 72. Other treatises are in Mrs. Merrifield's Arts of Painting (1849).

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Madan, 37.

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Pez, Thesaurus, i. xx.

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Bede, Works, ed. Plummer, xx.

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O. V., pars II. lib. iv.

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Hardy, iii. xiii.

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Surtees Soc., vii. xxv.

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Lecoq de la Marche, 103.

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In a MS. of Joh. Andreas, Super Decretales, Peterhouse, Camb.—James3, 29.

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MS. on surgery, Peterhouse, Camb.—James 3, 137.

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Du Cange, Gloss., art., Scriptorium.

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Martène, De Ant. Mon. Ritibus, v. c. 18, § 4.

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E. H. R., xxv. 121.

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Thompson, pp. 19 ff., 322.

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Customary of St. A. (H. Brads. Soc.), i. 401. These tablets were called ceratae tabellae, tabellae cerae, or simpty cerae. The name of a book, caudex, codex, was first given to these tabellae when they were strung together to form a square "book." V. Antiquary, xii. 277.

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James1, 7; ibid.17, 3

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Works, ed. Skeat, i. 379.

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Mon. Fr., i. 359.

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Epp., 8. 69; Sandys, i. 487-488.

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James (M. R.)10.

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Stevenson, Suppl. to Bentham's Ch. of Ely.

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Warton, i. 213

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Mon. Fr., i. 206.

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O, H, S., Little, 135; best account of Adam in this book.

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C. A. S. (N.S.), 8vo ser. vii. 187 (1909). The story of the connexion between Chesterton and Vercelli is most interesting. A list of the books is in Lampugnani, Sulla Vita di Guala Bicchieri, Vercelli (1842), 125 et seq.; but I have not been able to see the book. See further Bekynton's Correspondence, ii. 344 (Rolls Ser.); and Kennedy, Poems of Cynewulf (1910), 6.

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O. H. S., 27 Boase, xxxvii n.

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Sandys, i. 486-489, q.v. for other interesting facts about this abbot.

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Gesta Abbatum, i. 57.

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Chron. mon. de Abingd., ii. 153. A list of the preceptor's rents, applied to expenses of the writing-room and the organ, will be found in ii. 328.

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H. Mon. S. A., 392.

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Stewart, Ely Cath, 280; Surtees Soc., lxix. 15-20; Robinson, I.

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Chron. abb. de Eivesham, 208-210.

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Full document in Edwards, i. 283.

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Chron. abb. Rameseiensis, 356.

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James, 535-544.

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Chron. abb. de Evesham, 267.

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Robinson, 4.

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O. H. S., 27, Boase, 19.

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Rymer, Foedera, viii. 501; cf. James 17, 153.

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Cam. Soc., Bury Wills (1850), 105. Many of the gifts to Syon monastery came from priests.—Bateson, xxiii-xxvii. Cf. also lists of donors in James (M. R.), 535 et seq.

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Cf James (M R.), lxxii n.

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Customary of Barnwell (Harl. MS, 3061).

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Surtees Soc. xv., Durham Rites, 70-71. The library would be that built by Wessington in 1446.

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But see Robinson, 3.

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Sandys, i. 266.

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Archæol. Jour. (1848), v. 85.

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Lancs. and Ches. Hist. Soc., xix. 106.

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Chron. mon. de Melsa, iii. Ixxxiii,

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James (M. R.), xliv.

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Anglia Sacra, i, 245-6; James (M. R), l-li.

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MS. Arundel 57, Brit. Mus. See James (M. R. ), lxxvii. "This boc is dan Michelis of Northgate, y-write an englis of his ozene hand. thet hatte: Ayenbyte of Inwyt. And is of the bochouse of Saynt Austines of Canterberi. mid the lettres CC." "Ymende, thet this boc is volveld ine the eve of the holy apostles Symon an Judas, of ane brother of the cloystre of Sanynt Austin of Canterberi, ine the yeare of oure Ihordes beringe (birth) 1340."

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Surtees Soc., xv., Durham Rites, 26.

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C. 1429-45. Most likely over the cloister. The books seem to have been arranged flat on sloping desks, to which they were chained.—James (M. R. )1, 41.

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Chron. mon. de Abingd., ii. 373.

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Hardy, iii. xiii.

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Chron. mon. de Abingd., ii. 371; Customary of St. August., Cant. (H. Brads. Soc.), introd.

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Customary of St. August., i. 96; ii. 36.

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Panni, camisiae librorium.

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Stat. ant. ord Carthus., c. xvi. § 9.

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MS. Lat. 12296, Bibl. Nat., Paris.

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Bibl. Cluniacensis, lib. i.; Maitland, 440.

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James (M. R.)10, 171.

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B. M. MS. Reg. 12 G. ii.; Warton, i. 182.

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Harl. MS. 2798.

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See anathema in Trim Coll. Camb. MS. B. S. 17.

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James17, 126.

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Mon. Fr., ii. 41.

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Bryce, i. 27.

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Hist. MSS., 6th Rept. 296b.

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Records of the Borough of Nottingham, i. 335.

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C. A. S. (N.S.), iii. 397.

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See particularly James (M. R.), xlv-xlvi, 146-149.

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Delisle, Bibl. de École des chartes, iiie ser. i. 225.

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Hist. MSS. 6th Rept. 296a.

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Literae Cantuarienses, ii. 146.

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Mon. Fr., ii. 91.

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Literae Cantuarienses, ii. 146; James (M. R.), 146.

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James (M. R.), xiv, 502-503; Camb. Univ. Lib. MS., Ff. 4. 40, last fol.

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Clark, 133.

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Surtees Soc., vii. 85.

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