Libraries -- History; Library architecture -- History; Library fittings and supplies -- History
Citrus: identification of tree so called, 22, _note_;
used to preserve rolls, 29
Clairvaux: curse used, 78;
books chained near Chapter House, 89;
library, 112-4;
catalogue of this discussed, 196-8;
nature of fittings, 198
Clare Coll., Camb.: account of old library, 186;
new cases put up 1627,
_ibid._;
their plan discussed, 187;
new library fitted up, 285
_class_: meaning of word discussed, 243
_claustrum sine armario_ etc., 75
Cleopatra: receives library of Pergamon from Antony, 8
Cloister: the centre of monastic life, 80;
work interrupted by cold and bad weather, _ibid._;
activity at S. Martin's, Tournai, 81;
arrangements at Durham described, 90;
illustrated by reference to Westminster Abbey, 91-94;
was glazed at Durham, 90;
in other Houses, 100
Cluniacs: regulations in their Customs respecting books, 67;
date of these Customs, 68, _note_;
book-room in their priory at Much Wenlock, 87
Cobham, Thomas: library, Oxf., 148-151;
stained glass in windows, 242
Codex, a book: how accommodated, 36, 37;
figured on tomb of Galla Placidia, 39
Codex Amiatinus: representation of _armarium_ described, 40
Cold, in cloister, 80
_columpna_: a set of shelves, 87
_communes libri_; meaning of term, 82
Corbie: note from MS. once belonging to, 75, _note_;
injunction to use a MS. at, carefully, 77 and _note_;
endowment of library, 79
_cornua_: used for the knobs of a roll, 28
Corpus Christi Coll., Camb.: books chained 1523, 264
Corpus Christi Coll., Oxf.: library statute, 137, 138;
provisions against indiscriminate chaining, 138;
fittings supplied 1517, 172;
a type of the stall-system, _ibid._;
elevation of one bookcase, 173
Cosma e Damiano: church of, in Rome, 25, 26
Crates (of Mallus): his visit to Rome and influence there, 14
Creighton, Rob., Bp of Wells: fits up cathedral library, 188
Croxden, Cistercian Abbey: book-room, 86
Cruas, on the Rhone: book-press in the church, 94
Cupboards: in thickness of wall, 313
Curses, on those who steal or damage MSS., 77
Cuthbert, Abbat of Wearmouth: his scribes paralysed with cold, 80
Damasus, Pope: his archivum or Record Office, 42
_demonstratio_: meaning discussed, 243
Demosthenes: statue of, to shew way of holding roll, 27;
replica of his statue at Knowle Park, _ibid._, note
Denchworth: library in church, 262
De Rossi: theory respecting S. Lorenzo in Damaso, 42;
of the use of a triple apse, 63
Derr: library at, explored by Dr W. Budge, 4
_descus_: meaning discussed, 242
_distinctio_: word used in catalogue of Dover Priory, 194-196;
meaning discussed, 196, 243
[Greek: Diphthera] = cover of a roll, 29;
coloured purple, 29
Dolci, Giovannino dei: supplies bookcases to Vatican Library, 218
_domuncula_: a compartment of a bookcase, 244
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