The Care of Books

by John Willis Clark

• Varro, M. Terentius:
  • employed by C. Julius Cæsar to collect books for his intended library, [12];
  • his bust admitted into Pollio's library, ibid.
• Vatican Library of Sixtus IV.:
  • description of, [208-32];
  • appointment of Platina as librarian, [208];
  • selection of site, [209];
  • fourfold division, [211];
  • purchase of materials, ibid.;
  • engagement of artists, ibid.;
  • door of entrance made, [212];
  • Latin Library described, ibid.;
  • its decoration, [213];
  • Greek Library described, ibid.;
  • its decoration, [215];
  • Bibliotheca secreta described, ibid.;
  • Bibliotheca pontificia, ibid.;
  • glazing of the windows, [216];
  • rooms for librarians, ibid.;
  • bookcases for Latin library ordered, [217];
  • for Bibliotheca secreta, ibid.;
  • catalogue-frames and coffers ordered, [218];
  • cases for Bibliotheca pontificia ordered, ibid.;
  • chains bought, [219];
  • information derived from catalogues, [220-4];
  • contemporary fresco representing library, [225];
  • arrangement of cases in the four rooms, [226-9];
  • globes and brazier, [229];
  • rule for good behaviour in, 1513, ibid.;
  • visit of Montaigne, [230];
  • loans from, [230-1];
  • staff of library, [231];
  • maintenance of, [232]
• Vatican Library of Sixtus V.:
  • type of an ancient Roman library, [47];
  • summary account of decoration, [48];
  • detailed do., [49-60]
• Versailles: libraries of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, [287]
• Verses:
  • by Martial, to be placed under his own portrait, [35];
  • by Isidore of Seville, for the presses in his library, [45]
• Vespasian:
  • his library in Rome in templo Paris, [15];
  • statement of Aulus Gellius respecting, [19];
  • his record-office, now church of SS. Cosma e Damiano, [25]
• Victor (S.), Paris:
  • books bequeathed to, on condition of loan, [75];
  • library open to strangers, ibid.;
  • lines from MSS. at, admonishing readers to be careful, [76];
  • curse habitually used at, [77], [note];
  • library built at, 1501-8, [108];
  • catalogue of library analysed, [166-7]
• Villa Balestra, Rome: sarcophagus, [38]
• Vivarium, near Squillace: monastery of Cassiodorus near, [44]
• volumen
  • = roll, [27-30];
  • box for, [30];
  • fittings of libraries adapted to, [34];
  • representation of one of these, [35]

• Wall-system:
  • name proposed, [267];
  • library of Escõrial, [267-270];
  • Ambrosian Library at Milan, [271];
  • Bibliothèque Mazarine, [272-274]
• Wells Cathedral:
  • library at, [123];
  • described, [188]
• Wessyngton, Prior: builds library at Durham, [107]
• Westminster Abbey:
  • plan of cloister at, [91];
  • account of library in, [91-94];
  • carrells, [92], [93];
  • resemblance to Gloucester, [98];
  • library fitted up 1623-4, [187]
• Wheel-desk: see [roe]
• Whethamstede, John:
  • builds library at S. Albans, [108];
  • at Gloucester House, Oxf., [142]
• Whittington, Sir R.: builds library at Christ's Hospital 1421, [108]
• Williams, John, Bp of Lincoln:
  • fits up dorter at Westminster Abbey as library 1623-4, [187];
  • builds library at S. John's Coll., Camb., [248-251]
• Wimborne: Minster library, [261]
• Winchester: position of library, [108]
• Winckelmann, J. J.: description of library at Herculaneum, [25]
• Wings, attached to bookcases:
  • at Peterhouse, Camb., [252];
  • at University Library, [253];
  • at Pembroke Coll., [254]
• Worcester Cathedral:
  • book-recesses in cloister at, [84];
  • library at, [108];
  • Bishop Carpenter's library-foundation, [126-8]
• Wren, Sir C.:
  • visits Paris, [276];
  • builds library at Lincoln Cathedral, [277];
  • at Trinity College, Cambridge, [277-281];
  • at S. Paul's Cathedral, London, [282-4]
• Wren, Matt.: account of Pembroke Coll. library, [139], [160]

• York: Cathedral library, [125]

• Zutphen: library described, [153-159]

CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.