Libraries -- History; Library architecture -- History; Library fittings and supplies -- History
armarium: in Ulpian library, 20;
described by Nibby, 37;
to contain _codices_, _ibid._;
held by jurist Ulpian to be part of the library, _ibid._;
description by Pliny of one sunk in wall of a room, 38;
on sarcophagus in Museo Nazionale, Rome, with shoemaker at work,
_ibid._;
on do. in Villa Balestra, Rome, with physician reading, _ibid._;
on tomb of Galla Placidia, 39;
in Jewish synagogues, _ibid._ note;
in Codex Amiatinus, 40, 41;
verses composed for his own presses by Isidore, Bp of Seville, 45;
called _fenestra_ by Pachomius, 64, 65, _note_;
alluded to by S. Benedict, 66;
word used for a library by the Cluniacs, 67;
placed in charge of precentor, who is called also _armarius_, _ibid._;
same provisions in force at Abingdon, 68;
at Evesham, 69;
word used for a library by the Carthusians, 69;
described in Augustinian Customs, 71;
what this piece of furniture was, 81-96;
the _armarium commune_, 82;
this described and figured at Fossa Nuova, _ibid._;
Worcester Cathedral, 84;
Kirkstall, 85;
Meaux, 86;
at Titchfield, 87;
Durham, 93;
book-presses in cloister at Durham and Westminster, 90-94;
in France, 94;
examples of presses at Bayeux, Obazine, and S. Germain l'Auxerrois,
94-96;
supervision of press at S. Augustine's, Canterbury, 99
_armarius_ (who is also Precentor):
has charge of library in Cluniac Houses, 67, 73;
in Augustinian, 71;
provides for borrowing as well as lending books among the
Premonstratensians, 72
Arts: books required for course in, at Cambridge, 147
Assisi: library at, catalogued 1381, 73;
analysis of this, 206, 207
Assur-bani-pal, King of Nineveh: library in his palace, 2
Astrolabe: in library of Anne de Beaujeu, 303
Athens: notices of ancient libraries at, 5;
library built by Hadrian, 6, 16
Attalus, King: note on his stoa at Athens, 11, _note_
Augustine (S.): directions about church library at Hippo, 63
Augustine (S.), Benedictine House at Canterbury:
extract from custumary on care of MSS., 76;
rules for use of carrells, 99;
organisation of library in cloister, _ibid._
Augustinians: rules for books in force among, 71
Augustus: builds libraries in Rome, 12;
porticus Octaviae, _ibid._;
temple and area of Apollo Palatinus, 14;
their organisation, 18
Autun, College d', Paris: library at, 166
Bale, John, laments loss of monastic libraries, 246
Bamberg: chained book from monastery, 159
_banca_ or _bancus_: meaning discussed, 242
Bancroft, Abp, his library brought to Cambridge, 253
Barber Surgeons, Lond.: books in their library chained 1639, 265
Barberini: library in their palace at Rome, 316
Bateman, Will., Bp of Norwich: his library statute for Trinity Hall, 136;
division of his library, 144
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