Bibliomania in the Middle Ages

by F. Somner Merryweather

• Cædmon, the Saxon Poet, [185].
• Canterbury Monastery, etc., [61].
• Canute, the Song of, [244].
• Care in transcribing, [33], [68].
• Carelepho, Bishop of Durham, [101].
• Carmelite, [287], [297].
• Carpenter, Bishop, built and endowed a library in Exeter Church, [194].
• Catalogues of Monastic libraries, [10], [14], [82], [83], [102], [129], [130], [142], [147], [179], [180], [190], [191], [208], [209], [210], [211], [219], [220], [237].
• Catalogue of the books of Guy Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, [283], [284], [285].
• Charles V. of France—his fine Library.
• Charlemagne's Bible, [177], his Library, [184].
• Chartey's, William, Catalogue of the Library of St. Mary's at Leicester, [148].
• Chiclely, Henry, Archbishop of Canterbury, [86].
• Cistercian Monks in England, [221].
• Classics among the Monks in the middle ages, [60], [84], [87], [101], [102], [116], [122], [129], [148], [190], [200], [208], [225], [226], [232], [233], [240].
• Classics, Monkish opinion of the, [23], [227].
• Classics found in Monasteries at the revival of learning, [58], [59], [60].
• Cluniac Monks in England, [221].
• Cobham, Eleanor Duchess of Gloucester, [277], [278].
• Cobham, Bishop, founded the Library at Oxford, [194].
• Collier on the destruction of books, [8].
• Converting Miracles, [166].
• Coventry Church, [191].
• Coventry Miracles, [299].
• Croyland Monastery, Library of, [135].
• Cuthbert's Gospels, [93], [129].

• Danes in England, [95], [138], [139], [140].
• Daniel, Bishop of Winchester, [168].
• De Bury.—See Richard de Bury.
• De Estria and his Catalogue of Canterbury Library, [81].
• Depying Priory, Catalogue of the Library of, [234].
• Dover Library, [90].
• Dunstan, Saint, [64], [65].

• Eadburge—Abbess, transcribes books for Boniface, [169], [170].
• Eadfrid, Abbot of St. Albans, [249].
• Eadmer, Abbot of St. Albans, [251], [252].
• Ealdred, Abbot of St. Albans, [250].
• Eardulphus, or Eurdulphus, Bishop of Lindesfarne, [96].
• Ecgfrid and his Queen, [242].
• Edmunds Bury, St., [241].
• Edwine the Scribe, [79].
• Effects of Gospel Reading, [236].
• Effects of the Reformation on Monkish learning, [8].
• Egbert, Archbishop of York, [170], [173], his Library, [179], [180].
• Egebric, Abbot of Croyland, his gift of books to the Library, [137].
• Egfrith, Bishop of Lindesfarne, [93].
• Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, [277], [278].
• Ethelbert, [87].
• Etheldredæ founds the Monastery of Ely, [243].
• Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester
  • his love of Architecture, [229], [244],
  • his fine Benedictional, [230].
• Ely Monastery, [243], [244].
  • Extracts from the Account Books of, [245].
• Erventus the Illuminator, [147].
• Esseburn, Henry, [296].
• Evesham Monastery, [195], [196], [197], [198], [199], [200], [201], [202], [203], [204].

• Fathers, Veneration for the, [38], [39].
• Frederic, Abbot of St. Albans, [253].
• Franciscan Library at Oxford, [294].
• Friars, Mendicant, [115], [116], [288], [289], [290], [291], [292], [293], [294].

• Geoffry de Gorham, Abbot of St. Albans, [255], [256].
• Gerbert, extract from a letter of, [45].
• Gift of books to Richard de Bury by the Monks of St. Albans, [121].
• Glanvill, Bishop of Rochester, [91].
• Glastonbury Abbey, [205], [206], [207], [208], [209], [210], [211], [212], [213], [214].
• Gloucester Abbey, [218].
• Godeman, Abbot of Gloucester, [218].
• Godemann the Scribe, [231], [232].
• Godfrey, Abbot of Peterborough, [145], [146].
• Godinge the Librarian to Exeter Church, [193], [194].
• Godiva, Lady and her good deeds, [193], [194].
• Gospels, notices of among the Monks in the middle ages, [86], [89], [90], [91], [92], [129], [139], [140], [141], [142], [169], [196], [217], [221], [244], [245], [246], note, [255], [262].
• Graystane, Robert de, [105].
• Grostest, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, [292], [293].
• Gundulph, Bishop of Rochester, [87].
• Guthlac, St., of Croyland, [135].
• Guy, Earl of Warwick, his gift of books to Bordesley Abbey, [283], [284], [285].

• Hebrew Manuscripts among the Monks, [238], [293], [294].
• Henry the Second of England, [223], [227].
• Henry de Estria and his Catalogue of Canterbury Library, [81].
• Henry, a Monk of Hyde Abbey, [231], [232].
• Hilda, [184].
• Holdernesse, Abbot of Peterborough, [145].
• Hoton, Prior of Durham, [105].
• Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, [79].
• Hunting practised by the Monks and Churchmen, [224].
• Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, [275].
  • His domestic troubles, [277], [278], [279].
  • His death, [279].
  • Lydgate's Verses upon, [280], [281].
  • His Gift of Books to Oxford, [281], [282], [283].

• Illuminated MSS., [54].
• Ina, King of the West Saxons, [206].

• Jarrow, [157].
• John de Bruges of Coventry Church, [191].
• John, Prior of Evesham, [199], [200], [201], [202], [203], [204].
• John of Taunton, a Monk of Glastonbury, his Catalogue of Books, [208].

• Kenulfus, Abbot of Peterborough, [141].
• Kinfernus, Archbishop of York, gift of the Gospels to Peterborough Monastery, [141].
• Kildwardly, Archbishop of Canterbury, [79].

• Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, [75].
• Langley, Thomas, [131].
• Laws of the Universities over booksellers, [48], [49], [50], [51], [52].
• Lending books,
  • system of among the Monks, [17], [20];
  • by the booksellers, [52].
• Leoffin, Abbot of Ely, [244].
• Leofric, Abbot of St. Albans, [249].
• Leofric, Bishop of Exeter, [218];
  • his Private Library, [219].
• Leofricke, Earl of Mercia, [192].
• Leofricus, Abbot of Peterborough, [141].
• Leicester, Abbey of St. Mary de la Pré, at, [148], [149].
• Libraries in the middle ages.—See Catalogues.
• Libraries, how supported, [24], [25], [79], [198], [199].
• Librarii, or booksellers, [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47], [48], [49].
• Lindesfarne, [93].
• Livy, the lost decades of, [214].
• Lul, Majestro, [168], [169].
• Lulla, Bishop of Coena, [171].
• Lydgate's Verses on Baldwin,
  • Abbot of St. Edmunds Bury, [242];
  • on Duke Humphrey, [280], [281].