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

  
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PREFACE
  
CONTENTS
  
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
  
LIST OF PLATES

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CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTORY—THE USE OF BOOKS IN EARLY IRISH MONASTERIES
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CHAPTER II: THE ENGLISH MONKS AND THEIR BOOKS
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CHAPTER III: LIBRARIES OF THE GREAT ABBEYS—BOOK-LOVERS AMONG THE MENDICANTS—DISPERSAL OF MONKISH LIBRARIES
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CHAPTER IV: BOOK-MAKING AND COLLECTING IN THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES
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CHAPTER V: CATHEDRAL AND CHURCH LIBRARIES
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§ VI
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§ IX
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CHAPTER VI: ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: OXFORD
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CHAPTER VII: ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: CAMBRIDGE
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CHAPTER VIII: ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: THEIR ECONOMY
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CHAPTER IX: THE USE OF BOOKS TOWARDS THE END OF THE MANUSCRIPT PERIOD
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CHAPTER X: THE BOOK TRADE
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CHAPTER XI: THE CHARACTER OF THE MEDIEVAL LIBRARY, AND THE EXTENT OF CIRCULATION OF BOOKS
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Clark, 140.

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In winter 1382 "viid. ob pro ligature cuiusdam textus philosophic de eleccione Johannis Mattecote." Winter 1405, "id. ob pro pergameno empto pro novo registro faciendo pro eleccione librorum"; winter 1457, "iiiid. More stacionario pro labore suo duobus diebus appreciando libros collegii qui traduntur in eleccionibus sociorum." Autumn 1488, "iis. id. pro redempcione librorum quondam eleccionis domini Ricardi Symon." O. H. S. 27, Boase, xlix.

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P. R. O., Anc. Deeds, c. 1782.

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See further, Documents relating to the University and Colleges of Cambridge (3v. 1852); Statutes of the College of Oxford (3v. 1853), especially i. 54, 97; ii. 60, 89; and Mun. Acad. Cf. Willis, Camb., iii. 387.

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Lyte, 81.

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Ibid., 84.

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R. de B., ed. Thomas, pp. 246-48.

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