At present the archives have disappeared; the few books that remain have replaced them in the upper storey, and the library is used as a second vestry. The illustration (fig. 47) shews the interior of the _Cour des Libraires_, with the beautiful gate of entrance from the street. The library occupies the first floor. Beneath are the arches under which the shops used to be arranged; and above is the library of 1788. [Illustration: Fig. 47. Interior of the _Cour des Libraires_, Rouen, shewing the gate of entrance from the street, and the Library.] FOOTNOTES: [208] _Catalogi Bibliothecarum antiqui_; ed. G. Bekker, 8vo. 1885, pp. 24-28. [209] _Ibid._, pp. 43-53. [210] _Ibid._, pp. 64-73. [211] _Ibid._ p. 82-120. [212] _Catalogi Veteres Librorum Eccl. Cath. Dunelm._, ed. Surtees Soc. 1838, pp. 1-10. [213] See a letter by Dr M. R. James in _The Guardian_, 18 May, 1898. [214] _Catalogi Veteres Librorum Eccl. Cath. Dunelm._ Ed. Surtees Soc, 1838, pp. 46-79. This catalogue is dated Easter, 1395. [215] _Ibid._ pp. 10-34. This catalogue is dated 1391. [216] _Ibid._ pp. 34-38. Of the same date. [217] _Ibid._ pp. 80, 81. These volumes are recorded in the first of the above catalogues. [218] _Ibid._ pp. 81-84. The date is 1395. For a description of the Spendment see _Rites of Durham_, _ut supra_, p. 71. [219] Printed in _Catalogue general des manuscrits des Bibliotheques Publiques de France_, V. 339-452. [220] Inventarium librorum monasterii Cistercii, Cabilonensis diocesis, factum per nos, fratrem Johannem, abbatem eiusdem loci, anno Domini millesimo CCCC octuagesimo, postquam per duos annos continuos labore duorum et sepius trium ligatorum eosdem libros aptari, ligari, et cooperiri, cum magnis sumptibus et expensis fecimus. [221] Et primo librorum existencium in libraria dormitorii, quam ut est disposuimus, cum locus ipse prius diu fuisset inutilis et dudum arti sutorie et vestiario serviebat, sicut per aliquas annexas armariorumque dispositiones apparebat, sed a II^o annis vel circa nichil aut parum ibi fuerat. [222] _Dictionnaire raisonne de l'Architecture_, I. 271. He does not give the date, but, when I examined the original in the _Bibliotheque Nationale_, I found it plainly dated 1674. It is a most valuable record, as it shews the monastic buildings, which were greatly altered at the beginning of the last century, in their primitive state. [223] With this use of the word _linea_ may be compared the word _rayon_, now usually used in France for a shelf, especially a book-shelf. [224] Godwin, _De Praesulibus Angliae_, ed. Richardson, I. 126. [225] _Anglia Sacra_, I. 145. Librariam etiam supra Capellam Prioris situatam perpulcra caelatura adornavit, quam etiam nonnullis libris instaurari fecit, ad usum maxime literarum studiis deditorum, quos miro studio et benevolentia nutrivit et fovit. [226] _Rites of Durham_, p. 26.