44. Have we any remnants of the libraries of the classical period? Why?
45. To what do we owe the preservation of classical literature?
46. How did the monasteries come to have libraries?
47. What was the scriptorium of a monastery?
48. How was the work done there?
49. How were books cared for in the middle ages?
50. How were they loaned and under what conditions?
51. What can you say of the value of books in the middle ages, both in money and in sentiment?
52. Who besides the monasteries had libraries?
53. What had the universities to do with the growth of libraries?