Old English libraries

by Ernest Albert Savage

[196] In a MS. of Joh. Andreas, Super Decretales, Peterhouse, Camb.—James³, 29.

[197] MS. on surgery, Peterhouse, Camb.—James³, 137.

[198] Du Cange, Gloss., art., Scriptorium.

[199] Martène, De Ant. Mon. Ritibus, v. c. 18, § 4.

[200] E. H. R., xxv. 121.

[201] Thompson, pp. 19 ff., 322.

[202] Customary of St. A. (H. Brads. Soc.), i. 401. These tablets were called ceratae tabellae, tabellae cerae, or simply cerae. The name of a book, caudex, codex, was first given to these tabellae when they were strung together to form a square “book.”—V. Antiquary, xii. 277.

[203] James¹, 7; ibid.¹⁷, 3.

[204] Works, ed. Skeat, i. 379.

[205] Mon. Fr., i. 359.