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

On the use of classics in the Middle Ages see Sandys, i. 630 (Plautus and Terence), 631 (Lucretius), 633 (Catullus and Virgil), 635 (Horace), 638 (Ovid), 641 (Lucan), 642 (Statius), 643 (Martial), 644 (Juvenal), 645 (Persius), 648 (Cicero), 653 (Seneca), 654 (Pliny), 655 (Quintilian), etc.

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Rashdall, i. 42.

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Lyte, 88-89; Einstein, 180.

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Bacon, Op. ined., 84, 148.

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Mullinger, 211.

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Rashdall, i. 77-8.

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Becker, 244.

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Cf. Becker, index.

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On Michael, see Bacon, Op. maj., 36, 37; Dante, Inferno, xx. 116; Boccaccio, 8 day, 9 novel; Scott, Lay, II. xi.; Brown, Life and Legend of M. S. (1897)

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Bacon, Op. ined, Comp. stud., 472 (Rolls Series).

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In Peterhouse Library, Cambridge, is a manuscript of Aristotle's Meta-physica, with Latin translations from the Arabic and the Greek in parallel columns: the one being called the old translation, the other the new. The manuscript is of the thirteenth or fourteenth century.—James 3, 43.

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Gasquet3, 143-44; see other instances, Camb. Med. Hist., i. 588.

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Jourdain, Recherches . . . traductions Latines d'A., 187; Gasquet3, 148.

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Paris, Chron. Maj., iv. 232-3; cp. Bacon, Op. ined., 91, 434.

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Stevenson, 224, 227; Camb. Mod. Hist., i. 586; James, lxxxvi.

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MS. Ff. i. 24; Paris, C.M. iv. 232; cf. v. 285.

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Sandys, i. 576.

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Now Canon. gr. 35 Bodleian; James, lxxxvi. This may be the Liber grecorum in the list of books repaired in 1508.—James, lxxxvi., 163.

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James16, 10.

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Op. Maj, 46.

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Op. Tertium, p. 55, 56.

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James (M. R. ), lxxiv.

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Mun. Acad., 86, 430, 444; cf. Lyte, 235. Donatus came to be regarded as a synonymous term for grammar. In Piers Plowman a grammatical lesson or text book is called "Donet." A Greek grammar was called a "Donatus Graecorum."

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Mun. Acad., 441.

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In the right-hand doorway of the west front of Chartres Cathedral are figures of the Seven Arts, Grammar being associated with Priscian, Logic with Aristotle, Rhetoric with Cicero, Music with Pythagoras, Arithmetic with Nicomachus, Geometry with Euclid, and Astronomy with Ptolemy. Cf.. Marriage, Sculp. of Chartres Cath., 71-73 (1909).

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On medieval studies see further Mun. Acad., 34, 242-43, 285, 412-13; Sandys, i 670.

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Oxford Stat., c. 21.

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Toxophilus, Arber's ed., p. 19.

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Camb. Eng. Lit., iii. 364.

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Cf Warton, ii. 95.

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By Jehan de Tuim, c. 1240.

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Wace or Layamon.

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Amadas et Idoine, an anonymous Norman French poem of the twelfth century.

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Sir Beves of Hamtoun (Fr. 13 cent., Eng. 14 cent. ).

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Character in romance of Tristrem, by Thomas the Rymer.

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Haveloke. For other metrical catalogues see first and second prologues to Richard Cœur de Lion.—Ritson, Anc, Eng Metr. Romances, i. 55,

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Gladly, blithely.

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From beginning of Handlyng Synne, by Robert Mannying of Brunne.

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Bateson x.; Gasquet 4, 30-31; James (M. R.), 148.

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Written at the end of the manuscript, which is in the Douce collection.— Warton, i. 182-83.

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MS. gurney, II; James (M.R.), 515.

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B. M. MS. Reg., 9 B ix. I.

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Lyte, 135

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Mun. Acad., 665. Cf. p. 661.

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Mun. Acad., ci.

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Mun. Acad., lxxvii.

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Lyte, 93

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Lounsbury, Studies in Chaucer, ii. 265.

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Wife of Bath's Prologue, ll. 673-81.

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E. H. R., XXV. 453.

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Camb. Lit., i. 262.

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Piers Plowman, 186.

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"Quendam libru' meu' de Canterbury Tales."—N. & Q., II ser. ii. 26.

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Camb. Lit., i. 262.

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Jusserand, Piers, 13.

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