Libraries -- History; Library architecture -- History; Library fittings and supplies -- History
Bayeux, Cathedral: press called _Le Chartrier_ described and figured, 94;
library at, 125
Beaulieu, Cistercian Abbey: book-room, 86;
book-recesses in wall of cloister, 89
Benedict (S.): passage in his Rule respecting study, 66
Benedictines:
decrees given to English monks of the Order by Abp Lanfranc, 67;
customs in force at S. Benoit-sur-Loire, 68, _note_;
at Abingdon, Berks, _ibid._;
at Evesham, Worcestershire, 69;
their books bestowed in wooden presses, 84;
arrangement adopted at Durham, 90
Benoit (S.)-sur-Loire: customs quoted, 68, _note_;
endowment of library, 79
Bicester: school library, 262
Bobbio: library, 102
Bodleian Library, Oxf.: description, as fitted up by Sir T. Bodley, 185;
chains taken off 1757, 266;
inconvenience of chaining, 266;
new bookcases on wall-system, 275
Boethius: decoration of his library, 41;
view of a library in MS. of his _Cons. of Phil._, 163, 164
Bolton, Lanc.: school, 264
Book-room: in Cistercian Houses, 84-89;
at Fossa Nuova, 83
Boys, John: his library, 317
Brandolini, A.: epigram on library of Sixtus IV., 211
Brasenose Coll., Oxf.: library statute, 137;
chains taken off 1780, 266
_breve_ or _brevis_ = a book-ticket: in Cluniac Customs, 67;
in Lanfranc's decrees for Benedictines, 68
Brewster, Will.: bequeathes books to All Saints' Ch., Hereford, 262
Budge, Dr Wallis: note on Mesopotamian discoveries, 4
Bury, Lanc.: library in school, 263
Bury S. Edmunds: use of carrells, 98;
cloister glazed with stained glass, 100;
library built 1429-45, 108
Busts in Roman libraries: _see_ Portraits
Caesar, Julius: intends to build public library in Rome, 12
Caesarea: library, 62
Calder Abbey: portion of book-room, 88
Canterbury; _see_ Christ Church, Canterbury
Canterbury Coll., Oxf.:
library furnished from Christ Church, Canterbury, 143
_capsa_; box for carrying rolls, 30
Cardinal Coll., Oxf.; library statute, 137
Carols: _see_ Carrells
Carpenter, John (Bp of Worcester): his library foundation, 126
Carpet: books to be laid out on, in Chapter House for annual audit
in Cluniac Houses, 67;
in Benedictine, 68
Carrells: in cloister at Durham, 90;
detailed account of, with ground plan of a window, 96;
at Westminster Abbey, 92, 93;
series of, in stone, at Gloucester, 96-98;
general considerations as to arrangement, 98;
instances of their use in various houses, _ibid._;
by whom to be used, 99
Carthusians: rules for books in force among, 69
Cartmel, Lanc.: books to be chained in churchwarden's pew, 258
Cassiodorus: his _Codex grandior_ mentioned, 40;
intended college in Rome, 44;
monastery, library, and _scriptorium_ at Vivarium, _ibid._
Catharine (S.) Coll., Camb.: number of books in library, 145;
new cases, 285
Cedar: _see_ Citrus
Cesena: description of library, 199-203
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