Qui Regum tumulis obeliscus serviit olim
Ad cunas Christi tu pie Sixte locas.
Oblatio. Devotio.
XVIII. A fleet at sea.
Instruit hic Sixtus classes quibus æquora purget
Et Solymos victos sub sua jura trahat.
Providentia. Securitas.
CHAPTER II.
CHRISTIAN LIBRARIES CONNECTED WITH CHURCHES. USE OF THE APSE. MONASTIC COMMUNITIES. S. PACHOMIUS. S. BENEDICT AND HIS SUCCESSORS. EACH HOUSE HAD A LIBRARY. ANNUAL AUDIT OF BOOKS. LOAN ON SECURITY. MODES OF PROTECTION. CURSES. PRAYERS FOR DONORS. ENDOWMENT OF LIBRARIES. USE OF THE CLOISTER. DEVELOPMENT OF CISTERCIAN BOOK-ROOM. COMMON PRESS. CARRELLS. GLASS.
