[216] Ibid. pp. 34-38. Of the same date.
[217] Ibid. pp. 80, 81. These volumes are recorded in the first of the above catalogues.
[218] Ibid. pp. 81-84. The date is 1395. For a description of the Spendment see Rites of Durham, ut supra, p. 71.
[219] Printed in Catalogue général des manuscrits des Bibliothèques Publiques de France, v. 339-452.
[220] Inventarium librorum monasterii Cistercii, Cabilonensis diocesis, factum per nos, fratrem Johannem, abbatem eiusdem loci, anno Domini millesimo cccc octuagesimo, postquam per duos annos continuos labore duorum et sepius trium ligatorum eosdem libros aptari, ligari, et cooperiri, cum magnis sumptibus et expensis fecimus.
[221] Et primo librorum existencium in libraria dormitorii, quam ut est disposuimus, cum locus ipse prius diu fuisset inutilis et dudum arti sutorie et vestiario serviebat, sicut per aliquas annexas armariorumque dispositiones apparebat, sed a iio annis vel circa nichil aut parum ibi fuerat.
[222] Dictionnaire raisonné de l'Architecture, i. 271. He does not give the date, but, when I examined the original in the Bibliothèque Nationale, I found it plainly dated 1674. It is a most valuable record, as it shews the monastic buildings, which were greatly altered at the beginning of the last century, in their primitive state.
[223] With this use of the word linea may be compared the word rayon, now usually used in France for a shelf, especially a book-shelf.
[224] Godwin, De Præsulibus Angliæ, ed. Richardson, i. 126.
[225] Anglia Sacra, i. 145. Librariam etiam supra Capellam Prioris situatam perpulcrâ cælaturâ adornavit, quam etiam nonnullis libris instaurari fecit, ad usum maximè literarum studiis deditorum, quos miro studio et benevolentia nutrivit et fovit.