[434] There are many volumes formerly belonging to duke Humphrey, in the public libraries, a fine volume intitled "Tabulas Humfridi ducis Glowcester in Judicus artis Geomantie," is in the Brit. Mus., MSS. Arund. 66, fo. 277, beautifully written and illuminated with excessive margins of the purest vellum. See also MSS. Harl. 1705. Leland says, "Humfredus multaties scripsit in frontispiecis librorum suorum, Moun bien Mondain," Script. vol. iii. 58.
[435] Bouvin, Mem. de l'Acad. des Inscrip., ii. 693.
[436] Ibid.
[437] Printed in Todd's Illustrations to Gower and Chaucer, 8vo. p. 161, from a copy by Arch Sancroft, from Ashmole's Register of the Earl of Ailesbury's Evidences, fol. 110. Lambeth, MSS., No. 577. fol. 18 b.
CHAPTER XII
The Dominicans.—The Franciscans and the Carmelites.—Scholastic Studies.—Robert Grostest.—Libraries in London.—Miracle Plays.—Introduction of Printing into England.—Barkley's Description of a Bibliomaniac.