Libraries -- History; Library architecture -- History; Library fittings and supplies -- History
Libraries, Roman (B.C.):
intention of Julius Caesar to build a library, 12;
library of C. Asinius Pollio, _ibid._;
decorated with busts of departed authors, _ibid._;
works of Augustus, _ibid._;
Porticus Octaviae, 12-14;
temple and area of Apollo, 14;
other public libraries, 15;
of Tiberius, Vespasian, Trajan, _ibid._;
of Hadrian at Athens, 16-18;
organisation of Roman libraries, 18;
composition of Palatine library, _ibid._;
description by Ovid, _ibid._;
advice of Horace respecting, 19;
library of Tiberius, _ibid._;
of Vespasian in templo Pacis, _ibid._;
of Trajan (bibliotheca Ulpia), _ibid._;
loan of books from public collections, 20;
fittings, 36;
private libraries: of Lucullus, 20, 21;
fashion for book-collecting denounced by Seneca, 21;
library in Via dello Statuto discovered by Lanciani, 22;
at Herculaneum, 23;
near Rome, as described by Martial, 31;
record-house of Vespasian, 26, 27;
contents of Roman libraries, 27-30;
fittings of Roman libraries: discussion of words used, 30-33;
what the furniture so designated was, 34, 35;
representation found at Neumagen, 35;
desk for rolls in Lateran Museum, 36;
presses (_armaria_), 36-41
Libraries, Roman (A.D.): decoration mentioned by Boethius, 41;
by Isidore, 41, 42;
library described by Eucherius, 43;
of pope Agapetus, 44;
of Isidore, Bp of Seville, 45;
summary of pagan conception of a library, 47;
illustrated by Vatican Library of Sixtus V., 47-60
Libraries of Schools: Abingdon, 262;
Bicester, _ibid._;
Rivington, _ibid._;
Guildford, 263;
Bury, _ibid._;
Bolton, 264
_Library_ = bookcase, 244
Lichfield Cathedral: library, 123
Lincoln Cathedral: library, 117;
desks described, 161
_linea_: a shelf for books, 105, _note_;
at Saint Ouen, 244
Linen: books written on, 20
L'Isle, Roger: gives books to Oxford, 132
Loan of books: from public libraries in Rome, 20
Loan of books (for external use): allowed at Abingdon, 68;
Evesham, 69;
among Carthusians, 70;
Augustinians, 71;
Premonstratensians, 72;
enjoined on monks by Council of Paris 1212, 74;
books bequeathed that they may be lent, 75;
one House lent to another, _ibid._;
to Oxford scholars, 132;
prescribed in College Statutes, 133-137;
instances of, at Merton Coll., 140;
from Vatican Library, 230-1
Loan of books (to brethren on written attestation): among Cluniacs, 67;
Benedictines, 68;
Augustinians, 71;
probable meaning of this provision, 74, note
_loculamentum_ = pigeon-hole:
receptacle for rolls in Roman libraries, 31, 32
_lora_ = straps to keep rolls closed, 29
Lorenzo in Damaso: church, 42
Lorsch: library, 102
Louvre: library fitted up, 293
Lucullus: library described, 20, 21
_Lumen animae_: chained book so called, 203
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