Libraries -- History; Library architecture -- History; Library fittings and supplies -- History
Gonville and Caius Coll., Camb.: bookcases at, 254;
chaining of books bequeathed by Dr Caius, 265
Gorton: bookcase, 259
_gradus_ = a shelf, 87, _note_;
used with same meaning at Dover Priory, 194-196;
a side of a lectern, 167
Grammar Schools: _see_ Libraries
Grantham: library, 257
Gray's Inn: bequest of books to be chained, 264
Gregory (S.) the Great: notice of his monastery at Rome, 44
Groenendaal: library, 108
Guildford: chain in library of Grammar School, 157;
further account of this, 263
Hadrian: library built by him in Athens, 16-18;
similarity of plan between it and Pergamon, 18
Hale, Sir Matt.: his books given to Lincoln's Inn 1676 to be chained, 265
Hawkesmoore, N.:
builds library and bookcases at Queen's College, Oxford, 256
Hayles, Cistercian Abbey: book-room, 86;
arches possibly used as book-recesses, 89
Herculaneum: library, 23-25
Hereford, All Saints' Ch.: library, 262
Hereford Chapter Library: notes on, 174;
chaining described, 174-8
Hippo: library, 63
Hobart, Nich.: his bookcase at King's College, Cambridge, 254
Honywood, Mich.: builds library at Lincoln Cathedral, 276
Hook, to hold up desk, 179
Horace: advice to his friend Celsus respecting the Palatine library, 19
Howley-Harrison Library, Canterbury, 256
Humphrey, D. of Gloucester: his MSS. at Oxford, 247
_index_ = ticket bearing the title of a roll, 28;
of some bright colour, 29;
used in Cicero's library, 33
Isidore, Bp of Seville: on library of Pollio at Rome, 12;
on decoration of libraries, 41;
account of his own library, 45, 46
Ivory: books written on, 20
Jerome (S.): advises consultation of church-libraries, 62;
on library at Caesarea, _ibid._;
collated there MSS. used by Origen, _ibid._
Jerusalem: library, 62
Jervaulx, Cistercian Abbey: book-room, 86
Jesus Coll., Camb.: equidistant windows of library, 148;
glass in library, 242;
bookcases, 254
Jews: used _armaria_ in synagogues to contain the rolls of the law, 39,
_note_
John (S.) the Baptist, Coll., Oxf.: library statute at, 137;
library described, 185;
John (S.) the Evangelist, Coll., Camb.:
equidistant windows in old library, 148;
contract for desks, 160;
book chained at, 1564, 265;
library built 1623-1628, 248-251
Jumieges: curse from MS. at, 78
Juniper: bought to fumigate Vatican Library, 232
Kederminster, Sir John: founds library at Langley, 258
Kempis, Thomas a:
quotation from, on desolate condition of priest and convent without
books, 75;
injunction to use MSS. carefully, 77
King's Coll., Camb.: library statute, 137;
number of books in library 1453, 145;
bookcase by bequest from N. Hobart, 254;
Cole's account of library, 255;
chains taken off 1777, 266
Kirkstall Abbey: the _armarium commune_, 85
Kouyunjik: library, discovered by Layard, 2;
criticised by Dr W. Budge, 4
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