[164] Quicunque hunc titulum aboleverit vel a prefata ecclesia Christi dono vel vendicione vel accommodacione vel mutacione vel furto vel quocunque alio modo hunc librum scienter alienaverit malediccionem Ihesu Christi et gloriosissime Virginis matris ejus et beati Thome martiris habeat ipse in vita presenti. Ita tamen quod si Christo placeat qui est patronus ecclesie Christi eius spiritus salvus in die judicii fiat. Given to me by Dr James, from a MS. in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. [165] I have to thank my friend Dr Venn for this quotation. He tells me that it was first pointed out by Dr Swete in _The Caian._ II. p. 127. [166] See above, p. 71. [167] Delisle, _ut supra_, II. 124. [168] _Ibid._ p. 239. [169] _Ibid._ p. 365. Edwards, _Memoirs of Libraries_, I. 283. [170] _Supplement to Bentham's Ely_, by Wm Stevenson, 4to. 1817, p. 51. I have to thank my friend the Rev. J. H. Crosby, Minor Canon of Ely Cathedral, for a transcript of Bp Nigel's deed. [171] _Monumenta Moguntina_, ed. Jaffe, 8vo. Berlin, 1866, in _Bibl. Rer. Germ._ Vol. III. p. 301; quoted in Bede's works, ed. Plummer, p. xx. [172] See Church's _S. Anselm_, ed. 1885, p. 48. The words are: Nunc hyemali frigore rigens, aliis occupationibus vacabo, praesentemque libellum hic terminare fatigatus decerno. Redeunte vero placidi veris sereno, etc. _Hist. Eccl._ Pars II. lib. IV. [173] This couplet, written on the fly-leaf of a MS. in the library of the University of Cambridge (Hh. VI. II), was pointed out to me by my friend F. J. H. Jenkinson, M.A., Librarian. [174] Herimanni liber de restauratione S. Martini Tornacensis: ap. Pertz, _Mon. Germ._ XIV. 313. [175] See above, p. 37. [176] See _Dictionnaire du Mobilier_, par Henri Havard, S. V. _Armoire_, and the passages there quoted. [177] See above, p. 71. [178] The Cistercian Customs prescribe the possession of nine volumes at least, chiefly service-books, before a house can be founded. _Documents_, p. 253. [179] _Origines Francaises de l'Architecture Gothique en Italie_, par G. Enlart, 8vo. Paris, 1894. p. 9. This valuable work contains a full and accurate description, copiously illustrated, of Fossa Nuova and other abbeys in remote parts of Italy. [180] _The Monastery and Cathedral of Worcester_, by John Noake, Lond., 1866, p. 414. [181] _Chronica monasterii de Melsa._ Rolls Series, Vol. III. App. p. lxxxiii. [182] The word _theca_ signified in classical Latin a case or receptacle in which any object was kept. In medieval Latin it was specially used (_fide_ Ducange) for the chest in which the bodies or bones or relics of saints, were kept. In this catalogue it is obvious that it may mean either a shelf or a cupboard. [183] Sunt enim in libraria de Tychefeld quatuor columpnae pro libris imponendis, unde in orientali fronte due sunt videlicet prima et secunda. In latere vero australi est tercia. Et in latere boreali est quarta. Et earum singule octo habent gradus [etc.].