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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
  
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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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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

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  • WRITING IN BOOK OF KELLS. . . . .14 From THOMPSON'S Greek and Latin Palæography
  • WRITING IN BOOK OF ARMAGH. . . . .15 From THOMPSON'S Greek and Latin Palæography
  • WRITING IN GRÆCO-LATIN ACTS, PROBABLY USED BY BEDE. . . . .27 From MS. Bodl. Laud. Gr. 35, f. 63
  • WRITING IN BENEDICTIONAL OF ST. ETHELWOLD. . . . .43 From Archæologia, xxiv.
  • PLAN OF SCRIPTORIUM, BIRKENHEAD PRIORY. . . . .74 Redrawn from Trans. of the Lancashire and Cheshire Historic Society
  • ANCIENT STALL, OR CARRELL, IN BISHOP'S CANNINGS CHURCH, WILTS. . . . .77From COX AND HARVEY'S English Church Furniture
  • TABLET CASE AND WAXED TABLET. . . . .84 From COFFEY'S Celtic Antiquities in the Museum of the R.I.A.
  • PLAN SHOWING DISPOSITION OF BOOKS IN CISTERCIAN HOUSES. . . . .93 Redrawn from GASQUET'S English Monastic Life
  • PLAN SHOWING PROBABLE SITUATION OF LIBRARY OF WELLS CATHEDRAL IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. . . . .122 Redrawn from Canon CHURCH's Chapters in the History of Wells Cathedral
  • BEREBLOCK VIEW OF DUKE HUMFREY'S LIBRARY. . . . .140 From MS. Bodl. 13
  • AUTOGRAPH OF DUKE HUMFREY OF GLOUCESTER. . . . .191 From MS. Harl. 1705, f. 96a
  • RECORD OF SALE OF BOOK CAPTURED AT POITIERS. . . . .234 From MS. Reg. I9, D ii. opposite f. I
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