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PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

LIST OF PLATES

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY THE USE OF BOOKS IN EARLY IRISH MONASTERIES

CHAPTER II THE ENGLISH MONKS AND THEIR BOOKS

CHAPTER III LIBRARIES OF THE GREAT ABBEYS BOOK-LOVERS AMONG

CHAPTER IV BOOK-MAKING AND COLLECTING IN THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES

CHAPTER V CATHEDRAL AND CHURCH LIBRARIES I

CHAPTER VI ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: OXFORD

CHAPTER VII ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: CAMBRIDGE I

CHAPTER VIII ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: THEIR ECONOMY

CHAPTER IX THE USE OF BOOKS TOWARDS THE END OF THE MANUSCRIPT PERIOD I

CHAPTER X THE BOOK TRADE

CHAPTER XI THE CHARACTER OF THE MEDIEVAL LIBRARY, AND THE EXTENT OF CIRCULATION OF BOOKS

APPENDIX A PRICES OF BOOKS AND MATERIALS FOR BOOKMAKING

APPENDIX B LIST OF CERTAIN CLASSIC AUTHORS FOUND IN MEDIEVAL CATALOGUES

APPENDIX C LIST OF MEDIEVAL COLLECTIONS OF BOOKS

APPENDIX D LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS REFERRED TO FOR THIS BOOK

INDEX

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Contents.
List of Illustrations in the text
List of Plates

Index: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y.
Footnotes

(etext transcriber's note)

THE ANTIQUARY’S BOOKS
GENERAL EDITOR: J. CHARLES COX, LL.D., F.S.A.

OLD ENGLISH LIBRARIES



ABBOT WHETHAMSTEDE

ABBOT WHETHAMSTEDE

OLD ENGLISH
LIBRARIES

THE MAKING, COLLECTION, AND USE OF BOOKS
DURING THE MIDDLE AGES

BY
ERNEST A. SAVAGE


WITH FIFTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS

METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

First Published in 1911

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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