[314] I have again to thank Mr Gimberg for this photograph. It was a work of no small difficulty owing to the imperfect light.
[315] For scale see [fig. 62], p. 163.
[316] I have described this library in Camb. Ant. Soc. Proc. and Comm. Vol. viii. pp. 11-18.
[317] This book is now in the University Library, Cambridge.
[318] Arch. Hist., The Library, iii. 429. It is obvious that these heavy chains must have been attached to the lower edge of one of the boards, and that the bar must have been below the desk and not above it. See above, [p. 139.]
[319] Arch. Hist. ii. 244.
[320] See above, [pp. 117-121.]
[321] MSS. Harl. 4335. The picture hanging on the wall represents Philosophy offering her consolation to a sick man.
[322] For this information I have to thank my friend, Bernard W. Henderson, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
[323] Delisle, Cabinet des manuscrits, ii. 186, note.