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

Ego I. de G. Exon., do Eccle. Exon librum istum cum pari suo, in festo Annuntiationis Dominice. Manu mea, anno consecrationis mee xxxix.—Oliver, Lives of the Bps., 85.

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Lego eisdem libros meos episcopales, majorem et minorem, quos ego compilavi. Ibid, 86.

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In 1329 he wrote to Richard de Ratforde from Chudleigh: "Regraciamur vobis quod Librum Sermonum Beati Augustini pro nobis, prout Magister Ricardus filius Radulphi, ex parte nostra, vos rogavit, retinuistis, nobisque et condiciones ejusdem significastis et precium. Et, quia ipsum Librum habere volumus, lx solidos sterlingorum Magistro Johanni de Sovenaisshe [Sevenashe], Magistro Scolarum nostre Civitatis Exoniensis, pro ipso Libro tradi fecimus, ut nobis eundem, quamcicius nuncii securitas affuerit, transmittatis. Libros, eciam, Theologicos Originales, veteres saltem et raros, ac Sermones antiquos, eciam sine Divisionibus Thematum, pro nostris usibus exploretis; scribentes nobis condiciones et precium eorundem." O.H.S., 27 Boase, 2.

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Robinson, 63.

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Building accounts in C. A. S. (N.S.), 8vo. ser. iv. 296.

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Oliver, 366-375.

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Between 1385 and 1425 the bishops were giving books to Exeter College, Oxford.

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Oliver, 359, 360, 366-375.

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List in Oliver, Lives, 376; C. A. S. (N.S. ), iv. 306 (8vo. ser.).

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Oliver, 376.

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C. A. S. (N.S.), iv. 312.

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I have to thank my friend Mr. Tapley Soper, F.R,Hist,S., for his willing help in sending me information about this library.

Our account of church libraries will appear inadequate if it is not borne in mind that we do not propose to go beyond the manuscript age. An excellent account of modern church libraries is given in English Church Furniture, in this series. Also see Clark, 257.

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Reliquary, vii, II (Floyer).

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Reliquary, vii. 14 (Floyer).

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Ibid., 17.

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The best account of Worcester Cathedral Library is in Reliquary, vii. Il, by the Rev. J. K. Floyer, M.A.

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Havergal, Fasti Heref. (1869), 181-182.

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W. of Malmesbury, Gesta Pont., 184.

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Register of St. Osmund, i. 8, 214.

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Register of St. Osmund, i. 224.

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Cox and Harvey, English Church Furniture, 331.

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See list in Giraldus Cambrensis, vii. 165-166.

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Archaeologia, I. 496.

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Hist. MSS., 9th Rept., App. 46a.

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Ep., 126; Creighton, Papacy, iii 53n.

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Stow, i. 328.

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Dugdale, Hist. of St. Paul's, 392-398.

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Ibid., 399.

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Stow, i. 328.

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Ibid., ii. 346; Simpson, Reg. S. Pauli, 13, 78, 133, 173, 227.

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Pp. 1, 325-327.

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In the fifteenth century the bishops of Wells were good friends of learning: Skirlaw gave books to University College, Oxford; Bowet left a large library; Stafford gave books; Bekynton was the companion of the most cultivated men of his time. Dean Gunthorpe is well known as a pilgrim to Italy, who returned laden with manuscripts (see p. 192).

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Hist, MSS. Rept. 3, App. 363a.

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Mun. Acad., 649,

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Mun. Acad., 652-653.

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L. A. R., viii. 372; Canon Church's account of the library, in Archaeologia, lvii. pt. 2, is very full and interesting.

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Surtees Soc., xxxv. 36-40.

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Hunter, Notes of Wills in Registers of York, 15.

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Surtees Soc., xxxv., 45-46.

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Ibid., iv. 385; xiv. 89, 91.

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W. Salt Arch. Soc., vi. pt. 2, 211.

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Capit. Acts, v. 3.

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Harwood, Hist. and Antiq. of the Ch.... of Lichfield (1806), 109.

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Vict. County Hist. of Berkshire, ii. 109.

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Vict. Hist. Warwickshire, ii. 127 b.

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Ibid., ii. 128a.

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Johannes Rous, capellanus Cantariae de Guy-Cliffe, qui super porticum australem librariam construxit, et libris ornavit. Gentleman's Magazine (N.S), xxv. 37. The chapel of Guy's Cliffe was erected by Richard Beauchamp for the repose of the soul of his "ancestor," Guy of Warwick, the hero of romance.

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Mr. W. T. Carter, of the Warwick Public Library, has kindly given me much information about St. Mary's Church library.

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Arch. Inst. City of York (1846), 10-11; Surtees Soc., iv. 102-103, 196; xiv. 57-59, 159, 171, 220-222, 221n; xxvi. 2-3; xxx. 219, 275; Cox and Harvey, English Church Furniture, 331; Mun. Acad., 648-649; Library, i. 411; Cam. Soc., Bury Wills, 253.

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Cox, J. C., and Hope, W. H. St. John, Chronicles of the Colleg. Ch. o All Saints, Derby (1881), 175-177.

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Ibid., 157.

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Library, i. 417.

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Stow, i. 194. Leland, iv. 48, has a note of four MSS. "in bibliotheca Petrina Londini." Possibly this library was formed by Rector Hugh Damlet, who was a learned man, and gave several books to Pembroke College, Cambridge.— James10, 184.

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Archaeologia, xiv. 118, 120.

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R. H. S., vi. 205.

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Sandys, i. 606; Le Clerc, Hist. Litt. (2nd ed.), 430.

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