Bibliomania in the Middle Ages

by F. Somner Merryweather

[317] John of Glas. p. 262.

[318] Librario dedit. bibliam preciosam.—John of Glast. p. 262.

[319] Among them was a "Dictionarum Latine et Saxonicum."—Leland Collect. iii. p. 153.

[320] Leland, in his MSS. preserved in the Bodleian Library, calls Whiting "Homo sane candidissimus et amicus meus singularis," but he afterwards scored the line with his pen. See Arch Bodl. A. Dugdale Monast. vol. i. p. 6.

[321] See Hume's Hist. Engl.; Moffat's Hist. of Malmsbury, p. 223, and Will. Malms. Novellæ Hist. lib. ii.; Sharpe's translation, p. 576.

[322] William of Malmsbury, translated by the Rev. J. Sharpe, 4to. Lond. 1815, p. 107.

[323] MS. Cottonian Domit. A. viii. fol. 128 b.

[324] Saxon Chron. by Ingram, p. 343.

[325] Dugdale's Monastica, vol. i. p. 534. Leland gives a list of the books he found there, but they only number about 20 volumes. See Collect. vol. iv. p. 159.

[326] MS. Harleian, No. 627, fol. 8 a. "Liber Geneseos versificatus" probably Cædmon's Paraphrase was among them, and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy.