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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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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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"Some ther be that do defye All that is newe, and ever do crye The olde is better, away with the new Because it is false, and the olde is true. Let them this booke reade and beholde For it preferreth the learning most olde."

A Comparison betwene the old learrynge and the newe (1537).[11.1]


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