[148] Gasquet⁴, 49.

[149] E. H. R., xxv. 122.

[150] Bateson, vii.

[151] Synesius de laude Calvitii, MS. Bodl. 80.

[152] Gasquet², 36-37.

[153] Sandys., ii. 225; and see post, p. 195.

[154] Gasquet², 37; Rashdall and Rait, New Coll. (1901), 251.

[155] A few volumes escaped: a copy of Basil’s Commentary on Isaiah, presumably in Greek, and some others. “Among them must in all probability be reckoned the first copy of Homer whose presence can be definitely traced in England since the days of Theodore of Tarsus.”—Camb. Mod. Hist., i. 598. Cp. James, li.

[156] Aubrey, Lett. of Em. Per. from the Bod., i. 278.

[157] Laboryouse Journey and Serche of Johann Leylande for Englandes Antiquitees, by Bale, 1549. Cf. Strype, Parker (1711), 528.

[158] Accounts of John Scudamore (kings receiver), detailing proceeds of sale of goods from Bordesley Abbey, and other monasteries.—Cam. Soc., xxvi. 269, 271, 275.

[159] Fasciculus I. W. Clark dicatus, 16, and cf. 96.

[160] Fasciculus I. W. Clark dicatus, 16, 17.

[161] C. A. S. 8vo. Publ., No. 33 (1900), Dr. James on MSS. in the Library of Lambeth Palace, pp. 1, 2, 6.

[162] See Dr. James’ view of the dispersion of Bury Abbey Library.—James¹, 9-10.

[163] Monasticon, Dugdale, ii. 586-587.

[164] Ath. Ox. (1721), 82, 83.

[165] James (M. R.), lxxxi.

[166] Leland, Itinerary (1907), i. xxxviii.

[167] James (M. R.)¹, 11.

[168] Notes and Q., 2. i. 485; James (M. R.), lvii, lxxxii.

[169] Strype, Parker (1711), 528.

[170] James (M. R.), Sources of Archbishop Parker’s MSS. (Camb. Antiq. Soc.).

[171] James (M. R.), 505-534.

[172] James (M. R.)¹, 42; ibid. xciv. But later Dr. James was less certain of some of his identifications. See James (M. R.)¹⁰, viii.

[173] Robinson.

[174] See also Macray’s Annals of the Bodleian.

[175] Maitland, 404-405.

[176] Stat. selecta Cap. Gen. O. Cisterc., A.D. 1278, Martène, iv. 1462; Maitland, 406.

[177] O. H. S., Little, 55.

[178] Surtees Soc., xv., Durham Rites, 70-71.

[179] Chron. abb. de Evesham, 301.

[180] James (M. R.), li.; Cox, Canterbury, 199.

[181] Windle, Chester, 171-172; Library, ii. 285.

[182] Géraud, Essai sur les livres, 181.

[183] Sandys, i. 266.

[184] Cp. Du Cange, Gloss. art. Scriptores; citation from Const. of Carthusians.

[185] Maitland, 56.

[186] Chron. mon. de Abingd., ii. 371.

[187] Gesta abb. m. S. Albani, i. 57-58.

[188] From the Porkington MS.; this treatise has been printed in Early English Miscellanies, ed. J. O. Halliwell, for the Warton Club (1855), p. 72. Other treatises are in Mrs. Merrifield’s Arts of Painting (1849).

[189] Madan, 37.

[190] Pez, Thesaurus, i. xx.

[191] Bede, Works, ed. Plummer, xx.

[192] O. V., pars II. lib. iv.

[193] Hardy, iii. xiii.

[194] Surtees Soc., vii. xxv.

[195] Lecoq de la Marche, 103.

[196] In a MS. of Joh. Andreas, Super Decretales, Peterhouse, Camb.—James³, 29.

[197] MS. on surgery, Peterhouse, Camb.—James³, 137.

[198] Du Cange, Gloss., art., Scriptorium.

[199] Martène, De Ant. Mon. Ritibus, v. c. 18, § 4.

[200] E. H. R., xxv. 121.

[201] Thompson, pp. 19 ff., 322.

[202] Customary of St. A. (H. Brads. Soc.), i. 401. These tablets were called ceratae tabellae, tabellae cerae, or simply cerae. The name of a book, caudex, codex, was first given to these tabellae when they were strung together to form a square “book.”—V. Antiquary, xii. 277.

[203] James¹, 7; ibid.¹⁷, 3.

[204] Works, ed. Skeat, i. 379.

[205] Mon. Fr., i. 359.

[206] Epp., 8. 69; Sandys, i. 487-488.

[207] James (M. R.)¹⁰.

[208] Stevenson, Suppl. to Bentham’s Ch. of Ely.

[209] Warton, i. 213.

[210] Mon. Fr., i. 206.

[211] O. H. S., Little, 135; best account of Adam in this book.

[212] C. A. S. (N.S.), 8vo ser. vii. 187 (1909). The story of the connexion between Chesterton and Vercelli is most interesting. A list of the books is in Lampugnani, Sulla Vita di Guala Bicchieri, Vercelli (1842), 125 et seq.; but I have not been able to see the book. See further Bekynton’s Correspondence, ii. 344 (Rolls Ser.); and Kennedy, Poems of Cynewulf (1910), 6.

[213] O. H. S., 27 Boase, xxxvii n.

[214] Sandys, i. 486-489, q.v. for other interesting facts about this abbot.

[215] Gesta Abbatum, i. 57.

[216] Chron. mon. de Abingd., ii. 153. A list of the precentor’s rents, applied to expenses of the writing-room and the organ, will be found in ii. 328.

[217] H. Mon. S. A., 392.

[218] Stewart, Ely Cath., 280; Surtees Soc., lxix. 15-20; Robinson, I.

[219] Chron. abb. de Evesham, 208-210.

[220] Full document in Edwards, i. 283.

[221] Chron. abb. Rameseiensis, 356.

[222] James, 535-544.

[223] Chron. abb. de Evesham, 267.

[224] Robinson, 4.

[225] O. H. S., 27, Boase, 19.

[226] Rymer, Foedera, viii. 501; cf. James¹⁷, 153.

[227] Cam. Soc., Bury Wills (1850), 105. Many of the gifts to Syon monastery came from priests.—Bateson, xxiii-xxvii. Cf. also lists of donors in James (M. R.), 535 et seq.

[228] Cf. James (M. R.), lxxii n.

[229] Customary of Barnwell (Harl. MS. 3061).

[230] Surtees Soc. xv., Durham Rites, 70-71. The library would be that built by Wessington in 1446.

[231] But see Robinson, 3.

[232] Sandys, i. 266.

[233] Archæol. Jour. (1848), v. 85.

[234] Lancs. and Ches. Hist. Soc., xix. 106.

[235] Chron. mon. de Melsa, iii. lxxxiii.

[236] James (M. R.), xliv.

[237] Anglia Sacra, i. 145-6; James (M. R.), l-li.

[238] MS. Arundel 57, Brit. Mus. See James (M. R.), lxxvii. “This boc is dan Michelis of Northgate, y-write an englis of his ozene hand. thet hatte: Ayenbyte of Inwyt. And is of the bochouse of Saynt Austines of Canterberi. mid the letters CC.” “Ymende, thet this boc is volveld ine the eve of the holy apostles Symon an Judas, of ane brother of the cloystre of Sauynt Austin of Canterberi, ine the yeare of oure lhordes beringe (birth) 1340.”

[239] Surtees Soc., xv., Durham Rites, 26.

[240] C. 1429-45. Most likely over the cloister. The books seem to have been arranged flat on sloping desks, to which they were chained.—James (M. R.)¹, 41.

[241] Chron. mon. de Abingd., ii. 373.

[242] Hardy, iii. xiii.

[243] Chron. mon. de Abingd., ii. 371; Customary of St. August., Cant. (H. Brads. Soc.), introd.

[244] Customary of St. August., i. 96; ii. 36.

[245] Panni, camisiae librorum.

[246] Stat. ant. ord. Carthus., c. xvi. § 9.

[247] MS. Lat. 12296, Bibl. Nat., Paris.

[248] Bibl. Cluniacensis, lib. i.; Maitland, 440.

[249] James (M. R.)¹⁰, 171.

[250] B. M. MS. Reg. 12 G. ii.; Warton, i. 182.

[251] Harl. MS. 2798.

[252] See anathema in Trin. Coll. Camb. MS. B. S. 17.

[253] James¹⁷, 126.

[254] Mon. Fr., ii. 41.

[255] Bryce, i. 27.

[256] Hist. MSS., 6th Rept. 296b.

[257] Records of the Borough of Nottingham, i. 335.

[258] C. A. S. (N.S.), iii. 397.

[259] See particularly James (M. R.), xlv-xlvi, 146-149.

[260] Delisle, Bibl. de l’École des chartes, iii^e ser. i. 225.

[261] Hist. MSS. 6th Rept. 296a.

[262] Literae Cantuarienses, ii. 146.

[263] Mon. Fr., ii. 91.

[264] Literae Cantuarienses, ii. 146; James (M. R.), 146.

[265] James (M. R.), xlv, 502-503; Camb. Univ. Lib. MS., Ff. 4. 40, last fol.

[266] Clark, 133.

[267] Surtees Soc., vii. 85.

[268] See also Bateson, vi-vii.

[269] Bateson, vii.

[270] Pemb. Coll., Camb., MS. 180.

[271] Madan, 7, 8.

[272] Bateson, 202. Ut scilicet prima particula de numero et perfecta voluminum cognicione loci precentorem informet, secunda ad solicitam leccionis frequenciam ffratres studiosos provocet, et tercia de singulorum tractatuum repercione festina scolaribus itinera manifestet.—James, 407.

[273] James (M. R.), 410. For further information on monastic catalogues consult Surtees Soc., vii; Becker; James (M. R.); Bateson; Zentralblatt; Gottlieb.

[274] Bateson, Med. Eng., 86.

[275] Now in Mr. Pierpont Morgan’s library. Illustrated in La Bibliofilia, xi. 169.

[276] Cf. Register of S. Osmund, ii. 127. Textus unus aureus magnus continens saphiros xx., et smaragdos [emeralds] vi., et thopasios viii., et alemandinas [? carbuncle or ruby] xviii., et gernettas [garnets] viii., et perlas xii. Also i. 276; ii. 43. Jerome, Ad Eustoch, Ep. 18.

[277] MS., 41; James¹⁷, 81.

[278] C. A. S., 8vo. publ. No. 33 (1900), 25.

[279] MS. Bodl., Auct. D. 2. 16 fo. 1ª; Dugdale, ii. 527; Oxford Philol. Soc. Trans., 1881-83, p. 2.

[280] Full inventory in Oliver, Lives of the Bps., 301-310.

[281] C. A. S. (N.S.), 8vo. ser. iv. 311.

[282] Ego I. de G. Exon., do Eccle. Exon librum istum cum pari suo, in festo Annuntiationis Dominice. Manu mea, anno consecrationis mee xxxix.—Oliver, Lives of the Bps., 85.

[283] Lego eisdem libros meos episcopales, majorem et minorem, quos ego compilavi.—Ibid. 86.

[284] In 1329 he wrote to Richard de Ratforde from Chudleigh: “Regraciamur vobis quod Librum Sermonum Beati Augustini pro nobis, prout Magister Ricardus filius Radulphi, ex parte nostra, vos rogavit, retinuistis, nobisque et condiciones ejusdem significastis et precium. Et, quia ipsum Librum habere volumus, lx solidos sterlingorum Magistro Johanni de Sovenaisshe [Sevenashe], Magistro Scolarum nostre Civitatis Exoniensis, pro ipso Libro tradi fecimus, ut nobis eundem, quamcicius nuncii securitas affuerit, transmittatis. Libros, eciam, Theologicos Originales, veteres saltem et raros, ac Sermones antiquos, eciam sine Divisionibus Thematum, pro nostris usibus exploretis; scribentes nobis condiciones et precium eorundem.”—O.H.S., 27 Boase, 2.

[285] Robinson, 63.

[286] Building accounts in C. A. S. (N.S.), 8vo. ser. iv. 296.

[287] Oliver, 366-375.

[288] Between 1385 and 1425 the bishops giving books to Exeter College, Oxford.

[289] Oliver, 359, 360, 366-375.

[290] List in Oliver, Lives, 376; C. A. S. (N.S.), iv. 306 (8vo. ser.).

[291] Oliver, 376.

[292] C. A. S. (N.S.), iv. 312.

[293] I have to thank my friend Mr. Tapley Soper, F.R.Hist.S., for his willing help in sending me information about this library.

Our account of church libraries will appear inadequate if it is not borne in mind that we do not propose to go beyond the manuscript age. An excellent account of modern church libraries is given in English Church Furniture, in this series. Also see Clark, 257.

[294] Reliquary, vii. 11 (Floyer).

[295] Reliquary, vii. 14 (Floyer).

[296] Ibid., 17.

[297] The best account of Worcester Cathedral Library is in Reliquary, vii. 11, by the Rev. J. K. Floyer, M.A.

[298] Havergal, Fasti Heref. (1869), 181-182.

[299] W. of Malmesbury, Gesta Pont., 184.

[300] Register of St. Osmund, i. 8, 214.

[301] Register of St. Osmund, i. 224.

[302] Cox and Harvey, English Church Furniture, 331.

[303]See list in Giraldus Cambrensis, vii. 165-166.

[304] Archaeologia, l. 496.

[305] Hist. MSS., 9th Rept., App. 46a.

[306] Ep., 126; Creighton, Papacy, iii. 53n.

[307] Stow, i. 328.

[308] Dugdale, Hist. of St. Paul’s, 392-398.

[309] Ibid., 399.

[310] Stow, i. 328.