Libraries -- History; Library architecture -- History; Library fittings and supplies -- History
Lanciani. R.: discovers a private library in Rome, 22;
describes record-house of Vespasian, 26
Lanfranc, Abp: decree respecting use of books, 67
Langley Marye: library, 258
Lateran Museum, Rome: sculpture representing actor with masks, 36
Layard: library discovered by him at Kouyunjik, 2
Leaver, James: gives press to Bolton school, Lancashire, 264
Lectern-system: fittings in early libraries so named, 151-153;
at Zutphen, 153-159;
Queens' Coll., Camb., 151, 159;
Pembroke Coll., S. John's Coll., Peterhouse, Camb., 160;
Lincoln Cathedral, 161;
MS. Mus. Brit., 162;
Nuremberg, 163;
the Sorbonne, Paris, 164;
the College d'Autun, Paris, 166;
Monastery of S. Victor, Paris, 166;
Trinity Hall, Camb., 168;
MS. Fitzwilliam Mus., 169;
at University of Leyden, 170;
Cesena, 199-203;
S. Mark, Florence, 203;
Monte Oliveto, _ibid._;
Assisi, 206;
Vatican, 225;
Medicean Library, Florence, 235-240;
in private houses, 297-301
_lectrinum_ = desk, 161
Leland, John: his feelings on entering library at Glastonbury, 194
Lepidus, Domitius: temple built by him in Rome, 13
_liber_ = book: decision of the jurist Ulpian as to what is included
under this category, 37
Librarian: _see_ Precentor--Armarius
LIBRARIES, Assyrian: at Kouyunjik, discovered by Layard, 2-4;
at Derr, 4
Libraries of Cathedrals: 116-128;
Lincoln, 117, 161;
Salisbury, 121;
Old S. Paul's, 122;
Wells, 123;
Lichfield, 123;
Noyon, 124;
Bayeux, 125;
York, 125;
Troyes, 126;
Worcester, 126;
Rouen, 128
Libraries, Christian: situated in or near churches, 61;
at Jerusalem, 62;
at Caesarea, _ibid._;
at Cirta, _ibid._;
at Hippo, 63;
use of the triple apse, 63
Libraries of Colleges: statutes of Merton Coll., Oxford, 133;
University, 133;
Oriel, 133;
Peterhouse, Cambridge, 134;
Trinity Hall, 136;
New Coll., Oxford, 137;
All Souls', 137;
Magdalen Coll., Oxford, 138;
Corpus Christi Coll., Oxford, 137, 138;
Pembroke Coll., Cambridge, 139;
resume of regulations, _ibid._;
loan of books from, 140;
rules copied from monasteries, 141;
a real library an after-thought, 143;
characteristics of this, 143;
number of books, 143-148;
divided into lending and reference departments, 145;
examples of such libraries, 148;
Bp Cobham's library, Oxf., _ibid._;
Queens' Coll., Camb., a type, 151, 159;
fittings at Pembroke and other Coll., 160;
S. John's Coll., Camb., 248-250;
at Peterhouse, 251;
at Gonville and Caius, Emmanuel, Jesus, Pembroke, 254;
King's Coll., Camb., _ibid._;
Queen's Coll., Oxf., 255
Libraries, Greek: notices of, in Athens and elsewhere, 4, 5;
at Alexandria, 6;
at Pergamon, 7-12
Libraries, medieval: general characteristics, 240-244
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