Vatican Library of Sixtus IV.: description of, 208-32; appointment of Platina as librarian, 208; selection of site, 209; fourfold division, 211; purchase of materials, _ibid._; engagement of artists, _ibid._; door of entrance made, 212; Latin Library described, _ibid._; its decoration, 213; Greek Library described, _ibid._; its decoration, 215; Bibliotheca secreta described, _ibid._; Bibliotheca pontificia, _ibid._; glazing of the windows, 216; rooms for librarians, _ibid._; bookcases for Latin library ordered, 217; for _Bibliotheca secreta_, _ibid._; catalogue-frames and coffers ordered, 218; cases for _Bibliotheca pontificia_ ordered, _ibid._; chains bought, 219; information derived from catalogues, 220-4; contemporary fresco representing library, 225; arrangement of cases in the four rooms, 226-9; globes and brazier, 229; rule for good behaviour in, 1513, _ibid._; visit of Montaigne, 230; loans from, 230-1; staff of library, 231; maintenance of, 232 Vatican Library of Sixtus V.: type of an ancient Roman library, 47; summary account of decoration, 48; detailed do., 49-60 Versailles: libraries of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, 287 Verses: by Martial, to be placed under his own portrait, 35; by Isidore of Seville, for the presses in his library, 45 Vespasian: his library in Rome _in templo Paris_, 15; statement of Aulus Gellius respecting, 19; his record-office, now church of SS. Cosma e Damiano, 25 Victor (S.), Paris: books bequeathed to, on condition of loan, 75; library open to strangers, _ibid._; lines from MSS. at, admonishing readers to be careful, 76; curse habitually used at, 77, _note_; library built at, 1501-8, 108; catalogue of library analysed, 166-7 Villa Balestra, Rome: sarcophagus, 38 Vivarium, near Squillace: monastery of Cassiodorus near, 44 _volumen_ = roll, 27-30; box for, 30; fittings of libraries adapted to, 34; representation of one of these, 35 Wall-system: name proposed, 267; library of Escorial, 267-270; Ambrosian Library at Milan, 271; Bibliotheque Mazarine, 272-274 Wells Cathedral: library at, 123; described, 188 Wessyngton, Prior: builds library at Durham, 107 Westminster Abbey: plan of cloister at, 91; account of library in, 91-94; carrells, 92, 93; resemblance to Gloucester, 98; library fitted up 1623-4, 187 Wheel-desk: _see_ roe Whethamstede, John: builds library at S. Albans, 108; at Gloucester House, Oxf., 142 Whittington, Sir R.: builds library at Christ's Hospital 1421, 108 Williams, John, Bp of Lincoln: fits up dorter at Westminster Abbey as library 1623-4, 187; builds library at S. John's Coll., Camb., 248-251 Wimborne: Minster library, 261 Winchester: position of library, 108 Winckelmann, J. J.: description of library at Herculaneum, 25