The Care of Books

by John Willis Clark

[542] I have to thank my friend Sidney Colvin, M.A., for drawing my attention to this picture.

[543] See above, pp. [37,] [38.]

[544] MSS. Mus. Brit. 18 E. iv.

[545] Le Débat de l'honneur entre trois Princes chevalereux. Bibil. Roy. Bruxelles, No. 9278, fol. 10. The MS. is from the library of the Dukes of Burgundy, and may be dated in the second third of the fifteenth century.

[546] The original words are 'seize pas de vuide.' The substantive 'pas' must I think mean a foot, the length a foot makes when set upon the ground. The word pace, the length of which is 2 ft. 6 in. or 3 ft., is inapplicable here.

[547] Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne. Made English by Ch. Cotton, Vol. iii. pp. 53, 54. 8vo. London, 1741. I have to thank my friend Mr A. F. Sieveking for this reference.

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INDEX.

• Abingdon, Berks, Benedictine House at:
  • customs in force respecting books, [68];
  • carrells set up, [98]
• Abingdon: School library, [262]
• Actor and masks: relief representing in Lateran Museum, Rome, [36]
• Agapetus, pope: his intended college and library, [44]
• Albans (S.):
  • form of curse used, [78];
  • endowment of scriptorium, [80];
  • library built 1452-3, [108];
  • stained glass, [241]
• Alençon: town library, [287]
• Alexandria:
  • account of libraries, [6];
  • in museum, ibid.;
  • in temple of Serapis, [7]
• All Souls' Coll., Oxf.:
  • library statute, [137];
  • special provisions, [138]
• Ambrosian Library, Milan:
  • description, [271];
  • may have been copied by Wren at S. Paul's, London, [282]
• analogium: a book-desk, [105], [197], [243]
• Anne de Beaujeu: her library, [302]
• Antony, Mark: gives library at Pergamon to Cleopatra, [8]
• Apollo:
  • temple and area on Palatine Hill at Rome, [14];
  • composition of the library, [18], [19];
  • allusions to, by Ovid and Horace, ibid.
• Apollonius Thyaneus: commemorated in Roman library, [23]
• Apse, triple:
  • how treated in early times, [63];
  • De Rossi's theory, ibid.;
  • description by Paulinus of Nola, ibid.;
  • view of Lenoir, [64], [note]
• Aristotle:
  • said to have been a book-collector, [5];
  • his methods adopted by the Ptolemies, ibid.
• Ark: desk on pattern of, [297]
• armarium:
  • in Ulpian library, [20];
  • described by Nibby, [37];
  • to contain codices, ibid.;
  • held by jurist Ulpian to be part of the library, ibid.;
  • description by Pliny of one sunk in wall of a room, [38];
  • on sarcophagus in Museo Nazionale, Rome, with shoemaker at work, ibid.;
  • on do. in Villa Balestra, Rome, with physician reading, ibid.;
  • on tomb of Galla Placidia, [39];
  • in Jewish synagogues, ibid. [note];
  • in Codex Amiatinus, [40], [41];
  • verses composed for his own presses by Isidore, Bp of Seville, [45];
  • called fenestra by Pachomius, [64], [65], [note];
  • alluded to by S. Benedict, [66];
  • word used for a library by the Cluniacs, [67];
  • placed in charge of precentor, who is called also armarius, ibid.;
  • same provisions in force at Abingdon, [68];
  • at Evesham, [69];
  • word used for a library by the Carthusians, [69];
  • described in Augustinian Customs, [71];
  • what this piece of furniture was, [81-96];
  • the armarium commune, [82];
  • this described and figured at Fossa Nuova, ibid.;
  • Worcester Cathedral, [84];
  • Kirkstall, [85];
  • Meaux, [86];
  • at Titchfield, [87];
  • Durham, [93];
  • book-presses in cloister at Durham and Westminster, [90-94];
  • in France, [94];
  • examples of presses at Bayeux, Obazine, and S. Germain l'Auxerrois, [94-96];
  • supervision of press at S. Augustine's, Canterbury, [99]
• armarius (who is also Precentor):
  • has charge of library in Cluniac Houses, [67], [73];
  • in Augustinian, [71];
  • provides for borrowing as well as lending books among the Premonstratensians, [72]
• Arts: books required for course in, at Cambridge, [147]
• Assisi: library at,
  • catalogued 1381, [73];
  • analysis of this, [206], [207]
• Assur-bani-pal, King of Nineveh: library in his palace, [2]
• Astrolabe: in library of Anne de Beaujeu, [303]
• Athens:
  • notices of ancient libraries at, [5];
  • library built by Hadrian, [6], [16]
• Attalus, King: note on his stoa at Athens, [11], [note]
• Augustine (S.): directions about church library at Hippo, [63]
• Augustine (S.), Benedictine House at Canterbury:
  • extract from custumary on care of MSS., [76];
  • rules for use of carrells, [99];
  • organisation of library in cloister, ibid.
• Augustinians: rules for books in force among, [71]
• Augustus:
  • builds libraries in Rome, [12];
  • porticus Octaviæ, ibid.;
  • temple and area of Apollo Palatinus, [14];
  • their organisation, [18]
• Autun, Collège d', Paris: library at, [166]