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Old English libraries : $b the making, collection, and use of books during the Middle Ages — John Shaqi

Old English libraries : $b the making, collection, and use of books during the Middle AgesSavage, Ernest Albert

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Old English libraries : $b the making, collection, and use of books during the Middle Ages

Name: Old English libraries : $b the making, collection, and use of books during the Middle Ages
Author: Savage, Ernest Albert

Savage, Ernest Albert

Book collecting -- England -- History -- To 1500; Books and reading -- England -- History -- To 1500; Libraries -- England -- History -- 400-1400; Library catalogs -- England; Manuscripts, Medieval -- England; Scriptoria -- England

IV. CUMDACH OF ST. MOLAISE’S GOSPELS: FRONT AND
BOTTOM                                                                20
From COFFEY’S _Celtic Antiquities in Museum of Royal Irish
Academy_, by permission of the Council

V. BENEDICTIONAL OF ST. ETHELWOLD: NATIVITY OF
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST                                                  42
From _Archæologia_, xxiv.

VI. BENEDICTIONAL OF ST. ETHELWOLD: THE ASCENSION                     44
From _Archæologia_, xxiv.

VII. (_a_) ABBOT ROGER DE NORTHONE WITH HIS BOOKS                     48
From MS. Cott. Nero, D vii. f. 18_b_

(_b_) ABBOT GARIN WITH HIS BOOKS                                      48
From MS. Cott. Claud., E iv. pt. i., f. 125_a_

VIII. ABBOT SIMON OF ST. ALBANS AT HIS BOOK-CHEST                     50
From MS. Cott. Claud., E iv. pt. i. f. 124

IX. GREY FRIARS, LONDON (CHRIST’S HOSPITAL): OLD
HALL AND WHITTINGTON’S LIBRARY                                        54
From Trollope’s _History of Christ’s Hospital_

X. GREY FRIARS CATALOGUE OF CONVENTUAL LIBRARIES                      58
From MS. Bodl. Tanner, 165, f. 119

XI. TWELFTH CENTURY ILLUMINATION FROM BURY ST.
EDMUND’S ABBEY                                                        64
From MS. 2, f. 281_b_, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
by permission of the Master and Fellows

XII. WESTMINSTER ILLUMINATION, THIRTEENTH CENTURY                     68
From MS. Reg. 2 A xii. f. 14, Brit. Mus.

XIII. THE CLOISTERS, GLOUCESTER, SHOWING CARRELLS                     76
From MURRAY’S _Cathedrals_

XIV. A SCRIBE AND HIS TOOLS, FROM A VERY ANCIENT MS.                  82
From MS. Harl. 2820, f. 120

XV. FURNESS ABBEY: CLOISTERS AND CHAPTER HOUSE                        94

XVI. FACSIMILE OF LIBRARY CATALOGUE OF SYON MONASTERY                104
From BATESON’S _Catalogue of Syon Monastery_

XVII. MEDIEVAL BINDING: MR. YATES THOMPSON’S HEGESIPPUS              108
From BATESON’S _Mediæval England_

XVIII. ANCIENT BOOK-BOX IN EXETER CATHEDRAL                          110
Photo by HEATH & BRADNEE, Exeter

XIX. CHAINED BOOKS, HEREFORD CATHEDRAL LIBRARY                       116
By permission of the Dean of Hereford

XX. OLD LIBRARY, LINCOLN CATHEDRAL                                   118
Photo by G. HADLEIGH, Lincoln. By permission of the
Dean of Lincoln

XXI. WELLS CATHEDRAL: LIBRARY OVER CLOISTER                          122
Photo by T. W. PHILLIPS, Wells

XXII. ST. MARY’S CHURCH, OXFORD: FIRST HOME OF
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY                                                   132

Photo by H. W. TAUNT, Oxford

XXIII. (_a_) ILLUMINATOR OF ST. ALBANS                               134

From MS. Cott. Nero, D iii. f. 105


(_b_) DOCUMENT BEARING THE NAMES OF MEMBERS
OF THE BOOK-TRADE, _c._ 1180                                         134

From BARNARD’S _Companion to English History_


XXIV. (_a_) DUKE HUMFREY AND ELEANOR OF GLOUCESTER
JOINING THE CONFRATERNITY OF ST. ALBANS                              138

From MS. Cott. Nero, D vii. f. 154_a_

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