Bibliomania in the Middle Ages

by F. Somner Merryweather

• Malmsbury Monastery, [214].
• Malmsbury, William of, [214], [215], [216], [217], [218], [219].
• Mannius, Abbot of Evesham, his skill in illuminating, [195].
• Manuscripts, Ancient, described, [78], [79], [186], [187].
• Manuscripts, Collections of, [5].
• Marleberg, Thomas of, [196], [197], [198], [199], [200], [201], [202].
• Medeshamstede, [139].
• Mendicant Friars, [115], [116], [287], [288], [289], [290], [291], [292], [293], [294].
• Michael de Wentmore, Abbot of St. Albans, and his multis voluminibus, [268].
• Milton and Cædmon compared, [188].
• Monachism, [29], [36], [307], [308], [309].
• Monastic training, [263], [264], [265].
• Monks, the preservers of books, [29].

• Nicholas, of St. Albans, [267], [292].
• Nicholas Brekspere, [259], [260].
• Nicholas Hereford, of Evesham, [203], [204].
• Nigel, Bishop of Ely, [244], [245], [246].
• Norman Conquest. Effect of the, [74].
• Northone, Abbot of St. Albans, [267].
• Nothelm, Archbishop of Canterbury, [64], [171].

• Offa, King, [4], [192], [247].
  • Alcuin's Letter to, [175].
• Osbern, of Shepey, [91].
• Oswald, Bishop of Worcester, [24], [193].

• Paul or Paulinus, of St. Albans, [77], [253].
• Peter of Blois, Archdeacon of London, [47], [222], [223], [224], [225], [226], [227], [228].
• Peter, Abbot of Gloucester, [218].
• Peterborough Monastery, [138].
  • Library, [147], [148].
• Petrarch, [107], [108], [109].
• Philobiblon, by Richard de Bury, [112].
• Prior John, of Evesham, [199].
• Puritans destroy the Library in Worcester Church, [194].
• Purple Manuscripts, [54].
• Pusar, Hugh de, Bishop of Durham, [103].

• Radolphus, Bishop of Rochester, [90].
• Ralph de Gobium, Abbot of St. Albans, [257], [258].
• Ramsey Abbey, [237].
  • Hebrew MSS. at Ramsey, [239].
  • Classics, [240].
• Raymond, Prior of St. Albans, [262], [263].
• Reading Abbey. Library of, [233].
• Reginald, Archdeacon of Salisbury, reproved for his love of falconry, [227].
• Reginald, of Evesham, [196].
• Richard de Albini, [255].
• Richard de Bury, [17], [105], [106], [107], [108], [109], [110], [111], [112], [113], [114], [115], [116], [117], [118], [119], [120], [121], [122], [123], [124], [125], [126], [127], [128], [268].
• Richard de Stowe, [218].
• Richard of London, [145].
• Richard Wallingford, Abbot of St. Albans, [121].
• Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury, [213], [214].
• Ridiculous signs for books.—See signs.
• Rievall Monastery, library of, [190], [191], [192].
• Robert de Gorham, Abbot of St. Albans, [257], [258].
• Robert, of Lyndeshye, [144].
• Robert, of Sutton, [145].
• Roger de Northone, [267].
• Roger de Thoris, Archdeacon of Exeter. Gift of books to the Friars at Exeter, [294], [295].
• Rhypum Monastery; gift of books to, [163].

• Scarcity of Parchment, [56], [57], [245], [246].
• Scholastic Philosophy, [289].
• Scribes, Monkish, [44].
• Scriptoria, [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [198], [199], [253], [254].
• Sellinge, William, Prior of Canterbury, [86].
• Signs for books used by the Monks, [22], [23].
• Simon, Abbot of St. Albans, [260].
• St. Alban's Abbey, [120], [121], [247], et seq.
• St. Joseph, of Arimathea, [206].
• St. Mary's, at Coventry, [191], [192].
• St. Mary's de la Pré, at Leicester. Library of, [149].
• Stylus or pen, [154].

• Tatwine, Archbishop of Canterbury, [63].
• Taunton, John of, [208].
• Taunton, William of, [211].
• Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, [62].
• Thomas de la Mare, Abbot of St. Albans, [268].
• Thomas of Marleberg, Prior of Evesham, [197].
• Trompington, William de, Abbot of St. Albans, [265], [266].
• Tully's de Republica, [86].

• Valerius Maximus, Duke Humphrey's copy of, [282].
• Value of books in the middle ages, [54], [203], [204], [245], [273], [282], [283], [295].
• Verses written in books by Whethamstede, [274].
• Verulam, ruins of, excavated by Eadmer, of St. Albans, [250].

• Waleran, Bishop of Rochester, [91].
• Walter, Bishop of Rochester, [91].
• Walter, Bishop of Winchester, fond of hunting, [224], [225].
• Walter, of Evesham, [196].
• Walter, of St. Edmunds Bury, [145].
• Walter, Prior of St. Swithin, [231].
• Wearmouth, Monastery of, [157].
• Wentmore, Abbot of St. Albans, [268].
• Whethamstede, Abbot of St. Albans, [268], [269];
  • his works, [272];
  • gift of books to Gloucester college, [274].
• Whitby Abbey, [184], [185], [186], [187], [188], [189].
• Wilfrid, [162], [163], [243].
• Willigod, Abbot of St. Albans, [248].
• William, of Wodeforde, [145].
• Winchester, famous for his Scribes, [168], [229], [230], [231], [232].
• Worcester, Church of, [192].
• Wulstan, Archbishop of York, [147].

• York Cathedral Library, [179], [180].