[[6.1]]
N. Bishop's Collectanea, now at Cambridge; Wood,
Hist. and Antiq. U. of O., ed. Gutch, 1796
2, vol. ii. pt. 2, 910.
[[6.3]]
Clark, 144; Pietas O., 5; Lyte, 97; Oriel
document.
[[6.4]]
O. H. S. 5, Collect., i, 62-65.
[[6.5]]
Univ. Arch. W. P. G., 4-6.
[[6.6]]
Mun. Acad., 226-228.
[[6.9]]
Ibid,, 261 et seq.
[[6.10]]
After the Black Death, Trinity Hall, Cambridge,
possibly Corpus Christi, Cambridge, Canterbury College and New College,
Oxford, were founded, and University (Clare) Hall, Cambridge, was
enlarged, partly, at any rate, to repair the ravages the plague had made
among the clergy. Camb. Lit., ii. 354; cf. Hist.
MSS., 5th Rep., 450.
[[6.11]]
Mun. Acad., 267.
[[6.12]]
Ibid., 266; O. H. S. 35-36,
Anstey, 222, 229, 279, 313, 373, 382, 397.
[[6.13]]
Mun. Acad., 266.
[[6.14]]
The indenture in which the books are catalogued
mentions nine books received before: possibly these were the gift of
1435. Mun. Acad., 758; O. H. .S. 35, Anstey, 177.
[[6.15]]
O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 184-90.
[[6.16]]
O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 184.
[[6.17]]
Mun. Acad., 758.
[[6.18]]
O. H. S: 35, Anstey, 246.
[[6.19]]
O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 187-89; Mun.
Acad., 326-29.
[[6.20]]
Athenæum, Nov. 17, '88, p. 664;
Hulton, Clerk of Oxford in Fiction, 35.
[[6.21]]
O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 197 204.
[[6.22]]
See lists of Gloucester's books in Mun.
Acad., 758-65; O. H. S., Anstey, 179, 183, 232
[[6.23]]
He also owned some French manuscripts: what he
gave to Oxford formed part of a much larger private library.
[[6.24]]
O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 294-95.
[[6.25]]
O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 285-86, 300-1,
318.
[[6.26]]
O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 9, 46.
[[6.27]]
O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 245-46.
[[6.28]]
O. H. S. 35-36, Anstey, 326, 439.
[[6.29]]
The plan resembled that of the old library built
by Adam de Brome. For notes on the architectural history of this
library, see Pietas O.
[[6.30]]
Mun. Acad., 58, 59; cf. Smith,
Annals of U.C., 37-39.
[[6.31]]
Commiss. Docts., Oxford, i., Statutes,
p. 24.
[[6.33]]
Paravicini, Ball. Coll., 169, 173.
[[6.34]]
O. H. S. 5, Collect., i. 66.
[[6.35]]
Hist. MSS., ix. 1, 46.
[[6.36]]
O, H. S. 32, Collect., iii.
225; cf. Hist. MSS. 2nd Rep., App. 135a; Walcott, W. of
Wykeham, 285.
[[6.38]]
Hist. MSS. 8th Rep., i. 46; Reg.
Abp. Whittlesey, fo. 122, cited by Lyte.
[[6.39]]
Rogers, Agric. and Prices, iv.
599-600.
[[6.40]]
O. H. S. 32, Collect., 223,
214-15.
[[6.41]]
See the gifts to Exeter College, O. H.
S. 27, Boase, passim.
[[6.42]]
Mun. Acad., ii. 706.
[[6.43]]
Hist. MSS. 2nd Rep., 140a.
[[6.44]]
Hist. MSS. App. 2nd Rep., 129; O.
H. S. 27, Boase, xlvii.
[[6.45]]
Brantingham gave £20 towards the building;
More, £10. Account of building expenses, amounting to £57,
13s. 5½d., is given in O. H. S., 27, Boase, 345, see p.
;iii.
[[6.46]]
O, H. S., 27, Boase, xlviii. In 1392
"iiiis pro ligacione septem librorum et Id pro
cervisia in eisdem ligatoribus, VId erario pro labore suo circa
eosdem libros, et IId Johanni Lokyer pro impositione eorundem
librorum in descis."
[[6.48]]
The building, which is still standing as a part
of Trinity College, cost £42; fittings, £6, 165. 8d.
Blakiston, Trin. Coll., 26
[[6.50]]
Cf. Willis, Arch. Hist. Camb., ii. 410.
[[6.51]]
Willis, iii. 410.
[[6.52]]
Hist. MSS. 2nd Rep., 141a.
[[6.53]]
O. H. S. 27, Boase; O. H. S.
5, Collect., 62. At C. C, Christ Church, and St. John's
Colleges the least useful books could be sold if the libraries became
too large.—Oxford Stat.
[[6.54]]
Camb. Lit., iii. 50.
[[6.55]]
Cam. Soc., xxvi. 71.
[[6.56]]
I.e. for practically nothing, a mere
song.
[[6.57]]
Wood (Gulch), 918-19.
[[6.58]]
With Bodley's noble work this book has no
concern. The story has been told briefly in Mr. Nicholson's Pietas
Oxoniensis, and with more detail in Dr. Macray's Annals of the
Bodleian.
[[6.59]]
MS. français, I. I.
[[6.60]]
Delisle, Le Cabinet des MSS., i.
152.
