Latin language -- Readers; Natural history -- Juvenile literature; Picture books for children
The Books are placed
on _Shelves_, 4.
and are laid open for use
upon a _Desk_, 5.
Libri disponuntur
per _Repositoria_, 4.
& exponuntur ad usum,
super _Pluteum_, 5.
A Multitude of Books
is called a _Library_, 6.
Multitudo Librorum
vocatur _Bibliotheca_, 6.
XCVI.
The Book-binder.
Bibliopegus.
[Illustration]
In times past they glewed
Paper to Paper,
and rolled them up together
into one _Roll_, 1.
Olim agglutinabant
Chartam Chartæ,
convolvebantque eas
in unum _Volumen_, 1.
At this day
the _Book-binder_
bindeth Books,
whilst he wipeth, 2. over
Papers steept
in _Gum-water_, and then
foldeth them together, 3.
Hodiè
_Compactor_
compingit Libros,
dum tergit, 2.
chartas maceratas
_aquâ glutinosâ_, deinde
complicat, 3.
beateth with a hammer, 4.
then stitcheth them up, 5.
presseth them in a _Press_, 6.
which hath two _Screws_, 7.
malleat, 4.
tum consuit, 5.
conprimit _Prelo_, 6.
quod habet duos _Cochleas_, 7.
glueth them on the back,
cutteth off the edges
with a _round Knife_, 8.
conglutinat dorso,
demarginat
rotundo _Cultro_, 8.
and at last covereth them
with _Parchment_ or _Leather_, 9.
maketh them handsome,
and setteth on _Clasps_, 10.
tandem vestit
_Membranâ_ vel _Corio_, 9.
efformat,
& affigit _Uncinulos_, 10.
XCVII.
A Book.
Liber.
[Illustration]
A _Book_
as to its outward shape,
is either in _Folio_, 1.
or in _Quarto_, 2.
in _Octavo_, 3.
in _Duodecimo_, 4.
_Liber_,
quoad exteriorem formam
est vel in _Folia_, 1.
vel in _Quarto_, 2.
in _Octavo_, 3.
in _Duodecimo_, 4.
either _made to open Side-wise_, 5.
or _Long-wise_, 6.
with _Brazen Clasps_, 7.
or _Strings_, 8.
and _Square-bofles_, 9.
vel _Columnatus_, 5.
vel _Linguatus_, 6.
cum _Æneis Clausuris_, 7.
vel _Ligulis_, 8.
& _angularibus Bullis_, 9.
Within are _Leaves_, 10.
with two _Pages_,
sometimes divided
with _Columns_, 11. and
_Marginal Notes_, 12.
Intùs sunt _Folia_, 10.
duabis _Paginis_,
aliquando _Columnis_, 11.
divisa cumq;
_Notis Marginalibus_, 12.
XCVIII.
A School.
Schola.
[Illustration]
A _School_, 1.
is a Shop in which
_Young Wits_ are fashion’d
to vertue, and it is
distinguish’d into _Forms_.
_Schola_, 1.
est Officina, in quâ
_Novelli Animi_ formantur
ad virtutem, &
distinguitur in _Classes_.
The _Master_, 2.
sitteth in a _Chair_, 3.
the _Scholars_, 4.
in _Forms_, 5.
he teacheth, they learn.
_Præceptor_, 2.
sedet in _Cathedra_, 3.
_Discipuli_, 4.
in _Subselliis_, 5.
ille docet, hi discunt.
Some things
are writ down before them
with _Chalk_ on a _Table_, 6.
Quædam
præscribuntur illis
_Cretâ_ in _Tabella_, 6.
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