Appendix C

LIST OF MEDIEVAL COLLECTIONS OF BOOKS

Note.--This list aims (i) to bring together in brief form a number of records which are better removed from the main text of this book, and (ii) to present in chronological order facts carefully selected to show the variety of medieval libraries, in size and character.

----------+-------------------------------------------+-------------------- DATE | DESCRIPTION | SOURCE ----------+-------------------------------------------+-------------------- 778 | Alcuin’s library at York. Aristotle, | Alcuin, De Pont. | Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Cicero, | Eccle. Ebor., | Aldhelm, Bede, etc. | 1535-61; Becker, | | 2. 10 c. | Books given to Peterborough by | Dugdale, i. 382. | Ethelwold. Bede in Marcum, Liber | | Miraculorum, Expositio Hebraeorum | | nominum, De Literis Graecorum, etc. | | About 20. | 10 c. | King Athelstan gave some nine books to | B. M. Cott., A 1. | S. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury: | viii. fo. 56^{b}; | Persius, Isidore, Bede (?), etc. | James, lxix. c. 1034 | “Many” books on theology and grammar | Chron. Abb. de E. | given to Evesham Abbey by Bp. | (Rolls S.), 83. | Aelfward. | 1045 | Two books bequeathed to Glastonbury | Wm. of Malm., De | by Bp. Brithwold. | Ant. Glaston., | | Wharton, Angl. | | Sacra (1691), i. | | 578-83. c. 1060 | At St. Peter’s Exeter books given by | Dugdale, ii. 527. | Bp. Leofric; Exeter Book, Leofric | | Missal, etc. | 1077-93 | Church books given to S. Albans by | Gesta ... S. | Abbot Paul. | Albani, i. 58. 1078-99 | Bp. Osmund collected and wrote books | W. of Malm., Gesta | for Old Sarum Church. | Pont., 183. c. 1080 | Abbot Walter made many books for | Chron. Abb. de E. | Evesham. | (Rolls S.), 97. 1095 | Bp. William de Carilef gave about 52 | Surtees Soc., vii. | books to Durham [not Lindisfarne, as | 117-8; Becker, 172. | in Becker]. | 12 c. | Nearly 370 pieces at Durham Priory: | Surtees Soc., vii. | Quintilian, Plato’s Timaeus, | 1-10. | Sallust, Cicero (de Legibus, de | | Amic., de Senectute), Terence, | | Virgil, Ovid (Epp., Tristia, Ars | | amandi, Remedia amoris de Fastis), | | Lucan, Juvenal; grammar, rhetoric, | | arithmetic, geometry, medicine; some | | English books. | 12 c. | At Burton-on-Trent Abbey, after 1175, | B. M. Add. MS. 23944, | there were 78 vols. Incl. Augustine, | fo. 157; | Gregory, Bede, Anselm, etc. | Zentralblatt, | | ix. 201-3. 12 c. | Catalogue of 68 pieces belonging | MS. Bodley, 163, f. | probably to one of the great | 261; Becker, 216. | Southern abbeys. | 1104 | Abbot Peter gave many books to | Hist. et cart. mon. | Gloucester Abbey. | Glouc., i. xxiv. 1119-46 | Abbot Geoffrey gave church books to S. | Gesta ... S. Alb., | Albans. | i. 94. 1126-71 | At Glastonbury Abbot Henry had 54 | Adam de Domerham, | books transcribed, incl. Pliny’s | Hist., ed. Hearne | Nat. Hist., Suetonius De Vita | (1727), ii. 317-18; | Caesarum, Gesta Britonum, Gesta | Hearne, Hist. and | Anglorum. | Ant. of G. (1722) | | 141-3. 1130 | Abbot Reginald acquired for church of | Chron. Abb. de E. | Evesham Ab. books and ornaments. | 99. 1150 | Hugh of Leicester gave books to Lincoln | Girald. Cambrensis | Cath. 42 vols. and map of world in | (Rolls Ser.), vii. | library now; 31 added soon after. | 165. | Some parts of Bible given by Bp. | | Alexander; 9 books given by Bp. | | Chesney. Library included Augustine, | | Gregory, Bede, Ambrose, Jerome, | | Virgil, Vegetius (de re Militari). | c. 1170 | Over 223 volumes in Christ Church, | James, 7. | Canterbury: catalogue, which is but a | | fragment, contains books of grammar, | | rhetoric, music, arithmetic, poetry, | | logic, astronomy, geometry--Donatus | | in Greek, Donatus in English, | | Cicero’s Rhetoric, de Senectute, | | de Amicitia (2), Plato’s Timaeus, | | Terence (5 volumes), Sallust (8 | | volumes), Virgil (8 volumes), Horace | | (8), Lucan (5), Statius (6), Juvenal | | (4) Persius (9), Cato (2), Ovid (5). | c. 1177 | Nearly 80 books in Peterboro’ | Hist. Angl. | Abbey--Seneca, Terence, Martial. | Script. Varii | | [Sparke], 98-9; | | Merryweather, | | 96-97; Becker, | | 238. c. 1180 | 74 pieces in Whitby Abbey--42 theology, | Becker, 226. | 15 history: Cicero (de Amicitia, | | de Senectute), Homer, Juvenal, | | Plato, Sedulius, Statius, Virgil? | | (Bucolica), Persius, etc. | 1184 | Bp. Bartholomew left books to church at | B.M. Cotton Roll. | Crediton and to another church. | II., 11 (at end). 12 or 13 c.| At Bury S. Edmunds Abbey there was | James^{1}, 23. | a fair library at this period; | | including average number of classics. | 13 c. | Before this Reading Abbey had 228 | E. H. R. (1888), | volumes--Seneca, Aristotle, Virgil, | 117-23. | Juvenal; Gesta R. Henrici secundi, | | Ystoria Rading, Hist. Anglorum. | 13 c. | At Lanthony there were 486 volumes, | B. M. Harl. MS. | including Plato, Plautus, Cicero, | 460, ff. 3-11; | Sallust, Persius, Ovid, Lucan, | Zentralblatt, | Horace, Terence. | ix. 207-22. 13 c. | Prior John de Marcle gave 6 treatises | Chron. Abb. de E. | on law to Evesham Abbey. | (Rolls Ser.), xxii | | n. 13 c. | At Leominster church, a dependency of | E. H. R. (1888), | Reading Abbey, 130 books: Rotula | 123-5. | cum vita sancti Guthlaci anglice | | scripta, Medicinalis unus anglicis | | litteris scriptus, Liber qui | | appellatur landboc. | 13 c. | At Rievaulx there was a large library | James^{9}, 45-56. | of the usual medieval character: | | incl. Seneca, Justinian. | 13 c. | Flexley or Dene Abbey owned 79 | Zentralblatt, ix. | volumes: incl. three English books. | 205-07. c. 1200 | About 46 writers used as authorities by | R. de Diceto, Op. | Ralph of Diss for his Abbreviationes | Hist. i. 20. | Chronicorum. | 1202 | At S. Andrew’s Priory, Rochester, there | Archæologia | were about 280 volumes, many including | Cantiana, iii. | several distinct treatises. Scriptures, | 47-64 (1860). | liturgical and devotional books, | | Fathers, schoolmen, philosophical and | | medical treatises, grammatical works: | | Horace, Virgil, Sallust, Terence, | | Persius, Lucan, Ovid, Aristotle’s | | Organon, Cicero. | 1208 | Eight books presented to King John by | Sussex Archæol. | the sacristan of Reading, all scriptural| Collections, ii. | and theological. | (1849), 134-5. 1222 | Peterborough receives 7 books, incl. | Dugdale, i. 354. | 2 Psalters, from Abbot R. de | | Lyndesheye. | 1215 | At Glastonbury, 14 or 15 books were | Adam de Domerham, | written for Prior Thomas: books of | Hist. ed. Hearne | the Bible, missals. | (1727), ii. 441. 1217-18 | Prior Thos. de Marleberge gave a “large | Chron. Abb. de E. | collection”--including law, medicine, | (Rolls Ser.), 267. | philosophy, poetry, theology, grammar; | | Cicero (de Amicitia, de Senectute, | | Paradoxa), Lucan, Juvenal--to Evesham | | Abbey. | 1226 | At Peterborough a dozen books were | Dugdale, i. 354. | left by Abbot Alex. de Holdernesse. | 1245 | At Peterborough about 20 books, ordinary | Ibid., i. 355. | in character, were left by Abbot Walter | | de St. Edmund. | c. 1240 | Bp. Ralph of Maidstone gave service | | books and a Legend to Hereford | | Cathedral. | 1245 | 35 vols. at St. Paul’s Cathedral; ordinary| Archæologia, I. | medieval character. | 496. 1247-48 | At Glastonbury there were nearly 500 | Joh. Glaston, | books. Incl. much theology, chronicles, | Chron., ed. | classics. Aristotle, Livy, Sallust, | Hearne (1726), II. | Virgil, Cicero, Plato, Persius, Horace, | 423-44. | Juvenal. | 1249 | Peterborough receives 5 books from | Dugdale, i. 356. | Abbot Wm. de Hotot. | 1253 | Richard de Wyche, Bp. of Chichester, | Sussex Archæol. | left a number of books to the | Coll., i. (1848) | friars: chiefly glossed books of | 168-187. | the Bible, a glossed psalter, the | | Sentences, etc. | c. 1255 | John of Basingstoke imports Greek MSS. | Gasquet^{3}, 158-59; | from Athens. | Stevenson, 224, 227. 1258-59 | Prior Jno. of Worcester gave a number | Chron. Abb. de E. | of books to Evesham Abbey. Grammar, | (Rolls Ser.), xxii | logic, physics, theology, canon and | n. | civil law. | 1259 | Master of Sherborne Hospital left | Surtees Soc., ii. 6. | church books, and a liber phisica | | to the Hospital. | 1260-90 | Many books, including Seneca, given to | Gesta ... S. Alb., | S. Albans by Abbot Roger. | i. 483. 1262 | Peterborough receives 5 books from | Dugdale, i. 356. | Abbot J. de Kaleto. Incl. . | | Testamentum xii Patriarcharum. | 1266 | Roger de Thoris gave books to Grey | Oliver, Mon. D. | Friars’ Convent, Exeter. | Exon. (1846), | | 322-33. 1274 | Abbot R. de Sutton left some 17 books | Dugdale, i. 357 | to Peterborough. Incl. psalters, | | canon law, liber Naturalium | | Aristotelis. | 1295 | Abbot R. de London leaves 10 books to | Dugdale, i. 357. | Peterborough. Boëthius de | | Consolatione philosophiae, Nova | | logica, psalters, etc. | 1280-1303 | Bp. Richard of Gravesend. Over 100 | Misc. of Philobiblon | volumes, worth about £100. | S. 1856; Edwards, | | i. 373. 1285-1331 | Library of about 1850 volumes now at | James, 13-142. | Christ Ch., Canterbury. A fine | | collection. Many classics. English | | books: Genesis Anglice depicta, | | Boëthius de Consolatione, | | Herbarius Anglice depictus, Chronica | | vetustissima, Chronica Latine et | | Anglice, etc. | 1287-1345 | Richard of Bury owned a large library. | R. de B., passim. 1290 | John of Taunton added 40 works to | Joh. Glast. Hist., | Glastonbury Library. Ordinary. | ed. Hearne (1726), | | ii. 251-52; A. de | | Domerham, Hist., | | ii. 574-75. 1295 | 13 Gospels and other parts of the | | Scriptures, and a commentary of | | Aquinas at S. Paul’s Cathedral. | 1299 | Abbot W. de Wodeforde left 18 books to | Dugdale, i. 358. | Peterborough. Liturgical, theological, | | and law. | 1299-1300 | Edward I. owned a few books; including | Edwards, i. 391. | book of romance. | Late 13 c. | Galfridus de Lawað, rector of the church | James^{10}, 158. | S. Magnus, London, had 49 books. | | Canon law, grammar, logic, medicine, | | theology. | 14 c. | More than 600 books and 170 service | Chron. Abb. Ram., | books in Ramsey Abbey. Aristotle, | 356 (Rolls Ser.). | Plato (Timaeus), Greek Psalters, | | Ars Loquendi Linguam Graecam, Greek | | and Latin Psalter; Virgil, Ovid, | | Martial, Terence, Lucan, Prudentius, | | Seneca; French Bible, three Hebrew | | books, Hebrew Psalter, two parts of | | Hebrew Bible, Liber expositionum | | dictionum Hebraicum, glossary of | | Hebrew Bible, Expositio nominum | | Hebraeorum, Interpretationes | | Hebraicorum, Ars loquendi et | | intelligendi in Lingua Hebraica. | 14 c. | Small and unimportant collection at St. | Oliver, Mon. D. | Andrews Priory, Tywardreath. | Exon., 36. 14 c. | Richard of Stowe gave to St. Peter’s, | B. M. Harl. MS., | Gloucester, 7 vols., including | 627, fo. 8 a. | Boëthius de Consolatione P. | 14 c. | John de Bruges wrote 33 books, ordinary | Hearne, Hist. and | in character, for Coventry Priory. | Ant. Glast., App. | Incl. Palladius, de Agricultura. | 291-93 (1722); | | Dugdale, iii. 186. 14 c. | 23 books at Deeping Priory, | Dugdale, iv. 167. | Lincolnshire: including Gesta | | Britonum. | 14 c. | About 350 vols. at Peterboro’: including | Gunton, Hist. of Ch. | Aristotle, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, | of Peterboro’ | Seneca, Sallust; a good deal in French.| (1686), 173-224. 1300 | Bp. Bek had a number of books which he | Surtees Soc., vii. | refused to return to the Prior of | 121-22. | Durham; included Historia Anglorum, | | and Liber qui vocatur Liber S. | | Cuthberti, in quo secreta Domus | | scribuntur. | 1313 | 15 works, chiefly theological, beq. by | Hist. MSS., 9th Rep., | Bp. Baldock to St. Paul’s Cathedral. | Pt. i. 46a. 1315 | Church books and Bibles in Christ | Dart, Cath. of Cant. | Church, Canterbury (list). | (1726), App. vi., | | xv.-xvii. 1315 | Guy de Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, left | Todd, Ill. of Lives of | books to Bordesley Abbey: French | Gower and Chaucer | romances, etc. | (1810), 161, 162; | | Merryweather, 193-4; | | Edwards, i. 375-6. 1315 | Some 40 volumes at Durham College, | O. H. S., 32, | Oxford; sent from Durham. Chiefly | Collect. 36. | theology; Aristotle. | 1321 | Abbot Godfrey de Croyland left about | Dugdale, i. 358-59. | a dozen books to Peterborough. | | Theology, law, etc. | 1322 | Abbot Walter of Taunton gave 7 volumes | Williams, 81. | to Glastonbury. | 1325 | A small collection of church books at | Surtees Soc., ii. 22. | St. Edmund’s Hospital, Gateshead. | 1327 | Abingdon Abbey had 100 Psalters, 100 | Ibid., vii. xxxiii. | Graduals, 40 Missals; 22 codices, | | probably not church books. | 1327 | About 230 volumes at Exeter. Civil and | Oliver, Lives of Bps. of | canon law, theology. | E., 301-10. 1327 | Bp. Cobham bequeathed his books and | Mun. Acad., i. 227. | 350 marks to found common library at | | Oxford. | 1331 | Prior Henry Eastry bequeathed 80 books | James, 143. | to Christ Church, Canterbury--26 | | theology, 29 canon law, 14 civil law, | | 11 church books. | 1335 | Abbot Adam de Sodbury gave 7 vols. to | Joh. Glaston. Hist., ed. | Glastonbury. | Hearne (1726), 265. 1335 | 4 books given and 32 sold to Richard of | Gesta ... S. Alb., ii. | Bury from S. Albans Abbey. | 200. 1335-49 |Books given to S. Albans by Abbot | Ibid., ii. 363. | Michael. | 1336 |Bp. Stephen Gravesend bequeathed books | Lyte, 181. | to four colleges, Merton, University, | | Balliol, Oriel. | 1337 |93 books missing at Christ Church, | James, 146. | Canterbury. Many books of offices; | | includes Brutus in French. | 1338 |Abbot Adam de Botheby left about a | Dugdale, i. 360. | dozen books on canon law, theology, | | and liturgical books to Peterborough. | 1343 |Hinton Priory lent about 23 books to | Hunter, 17; | another house--Gospels, homilies, lives | Surtees Soc., | of saints, etc. | vii. xxxviii. 1345 (6) |Over 50 volumes in Lichfield Cathedral | W. Salt Arch. S. |-all church books, except 2 martyrologies,| vi., pt. 2, | 4 quires of lives of saints, and | Sacrist’s roll, | De gestis Anglorum. St. Chad’s Gospels.| 211. 1349-96 |Abbot Thomas’ study or library at St. | Gest a ... S. | Albans enlarged; many books added. | Alb ., iii, 389; | | cf. ii. 399. 1350 |Trinity Hall, Cambridge, receives 84 | C. A . S. (1864), | vols. from founder, Dr. Bateman: | ii. 73-78; Clark, | Canon law (32), civil law (10), theology| 138 . | (28), chapel books (14). | 1353 | Abbot de Morcote left some 11 books to | Dugdale, i. 360. | Peterborough: Canon law, a Catholicon.| 1355 | Elizabeth de Clare bequeathed to Clare | Edwards, i. 374. | Hall, a few books: including Hugutio. | 1358 | John Trevaur, Bp. of St. Asaph. Chiefly | B. M. Add. MS. | ecclesiastical books. | 25459, fo. 291. 1358 | Thomas de la Mare, wealthy canon of | Surtees Soc., | York, owned some six law books. | iv. 69. 1360 | Bp. Grandisson of Exeter appears to have | | owned a good library. He gave 4 | | books to Exeter; Aquinas’ works to | | Black Friars of Exeter; 1 to Windsor | | Chapel; remainder to his Chapter, to | | the collegiate churches of Ottery, | | Crediton, and Boseham, and Exeter | | College, Oxford. His copy of Anselm’s | | Letters is now in Brit. Mus. | 1361 | Peterborough received 7 books from | Dugdale, i. 361. | Abbot Robt. Ramsey. Canon law. | 1362 | A small collection, nearly all church | Surtees Soc., xii., | books, at Coldingham Priory. | App. xl. 1368 | Simon of Bredon bequeathed books to six | Hist. MSS., 9th | Oxford Colleges. | Rept., pt. i., 46. 1370 | A Chaplain (Adam de Stanton) left 4 | Cam. Soc., Bury | books, including one of romance. | wills (1850), 1. 1372 | At York the Friars Eremites of S. | Fasciculus J. W. | Augustine owned 646 books. Bibles | Clark dicatus, | and glossed books of Bible, Greek | 2-96. | Psalter, patristic and later church | | writers (91), logic and philosophy | | (100), astronomy and astrology (36), | | civil law (14), canon law (35), | | grammar and Latin poets (50), | | medicine (22), sermons (42), | | arithmetic, music, geometry, | | perspective. | 1374 | Archbp. W. Whittlesey bequeathed his | Hook, Archbps., iv. | library to Peterhouse. | 242-43. 1375 | Nearly 100 volumes at Oriel College, | O. H. S. 5, | Oxford; half the collection theology | Collect., i. 66. | and philosophy; translations of | 1376 | 116 books bequeathed to Westminster | Robinson, 5-7. | Abbey by Simon Langham, Archbp. | | of Canterbury. Valued at 1121 francs | | and 14 shillings. Chiefly theology. | | Aristotle. | 1377-1400 | In the Royal Chapel of Windsor Castle | Dugdale, vi., pt. 3, | 34 books were chained up, incl. | 1362. | Catholicon, Hugutio, Legenda Aurea, | | French romances, one “Romaunce de | | two la Rose, et alius difficilis | | materiae.” Also liturgical and | | Scriptural books. | 1378 | Sir John de Foxle left a large missal | Archæol. Cantiana, | and a few service books. | iii. 267; Archæol. | | Jour., xv. (1858), | | 267. 1378 | Thos. de Farnylaw, Chancellor of York, | Surtees Soc., iv. | left Bible and concordances to St. | 102-03. | Nicholas’ Church, Newcastle; a book | | of sermons to Embleton Church; other | | books to Vicar of Waghen; others to | | Merton and Balliol. | 1379 | Wm. de Feriby, canon of York, archd. | Ibid., iv. 103-04. | of Cleveland. “Item lego ad novam | | fabricam Ecclesiae Ebor. xx marcas et | | omnes libros, qui fuerint domini mei | | domini Willielmi de Melton.” Several | | law books specifically mentioned. | c. 1380 | Bp. Reed left many manuscripts to | O. H. S., 32, | Merton College. | Collect. 214. 1387 | William of Wykeham furnished New | Ibid., 223. | College with over 240 books--135 | | (138) theology, 28 philosophy, 41 canon| | law, 36 civil law. | c. 1387 | 52 books added to New College by somebody| Ibid., 223. | unnamed: 37 medicine. | c. 1387 | 63 books given to New College by Bp. | Ibid., 223. | Reed: 58 theology, 2 philosophy, 3 | | canon law. | 1387 | Sir Simon Burley owned a few romances. | B. M. Add. MS. | | 25459, fo. 206. 1387 | Hy. Whitefield left books and money to | O. H. S., 27, | buy books for Exeter College, and | Boase, 7. | Burley on logic and Aristotle’s Ethica| | and Topica were bought and chained | | up in library. | 1389 | 450 volumes at S. Martin’s Priory, | James, xc. 407. | Dover--Bibles, theology, civil and canon| | law, logic, philosophy, rhetoric, | | medicine, chronicles, romances (le | | Romonse du roy Charles, le Romonse de | | Athys, le Romonse de la Rose, etc.), | | grammar, dictionaries. Plato, Aristotle,| | poetry, Horace, Statius, Ovid, Virgil, | | Juvenal, Terence, Lucan. | 1389-1435 | John, Duke of Bedford, bought portion of | Delisle, Le Cabinet | French Royal Library. | des manuscrits. c. 1390 | 14 books given to Evesham Abbey by | Chron. Abb. de E. | John de Brymesgrave, sacrist. | (Rolls Ser.), | | xxii n.; Dugdale, | | ii. 7 n. c. 1390 | 96 books given to Evesham Abbey by | Chron. Abb. de E. | Prior Nich. Herford; not the Lollard | (Rolls Ser.), | of this name. | xxii n. 1391 | Peterborough received 8 books, incl. | Dugdale, i. 361. | Catholicon, from Abbot Henry de | | Overton. | 1391 | 508 volumes in common case within | Surtees Soc., | spendiment and in inner room of | vii. 10-39. | spendiment at Durham Priory--Bibles, | | theology, logic, philosophy, medicine, | | grammar, law. Seneca, Cicero, | | Quintilian, Valerius Maximus, Palladius | | (de Agricultura), A. Gellius, Juvenal,| | Terence, Virgil, Ovid, Aristotle. | 1391 | The Rector of Adell Church, Thos. de | Ibid., iv. 156. | Halton, left 5 books of canon law. | 1391 | John Percyhay of Swynton left small | Ibid., iv. 164. | collection of books, incl. Brut in | | French. | 1392 | Robert de Roos, a soldier, left church | Ibid., iv. 178. | books, and several volumes in French: | | incl. Roumans de Sydrach (a curious | | medley of medieval mystery and science, | | in prose). | 1394 | King’s Hall, Cambridge, had a library of | Willis, Arch. | 87 volumes. | Hist. of Camb., | | ii. 442. 1394 |John Hopton, a chaplain, left a few books,| Surtees Soc., | four mentioned: incl. Gospels in | iv. 196. | English. (? Wyclif’s). | 1394 | John de Pykering, rector of S. Mary’s, | Ibid., iv. 194. | Castlegate, York, left small collection| | of church books. | 1395 | Thomas of England, an Augustinian, | Gherardi, Statuti | bought MSS. in Italy. | della Univ. e | | Studio | | Fiorentino, | | 364; Einstein, | | 15; Sandys, ii. | | 220. 1395 | 411 volumes in common library, for | Surtees Soc., | refectory, and in case of novices at | vii. 46-84. | Durham Priory. Theology, law, history; | | Seneca, Aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates. | 1395 | John de Scardeburgh, rector of Tichmarsh,| Ibid., xlv. 6. | left over 26 books: incl. Brut in | | French, Mannedevile “in paupiro” in | | French. | c. 1395 | 79 volumes at Hulne. Theology, history, | Ibid., vii. | grammar, logic, law, church books. | 131-35. 1396 | Walter de Bragge, canon of York, left | Surtees Soc., | small collection of theology and | iv. 207. | service books: incl. Piers Plowman | | and Catholicon. | 1396 | Abbot Nich. Elmstow left liturgical and | Dugdale, i. 361. | law books to Peterborough. | 1397 | Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of | B. M. Add. 25459, | Gloucester, left a collection of | fo. 212-16. | books, theological and French. | 1399 | Eleanor of Gloucester, left about 15 | Nicolas, | mostly in French; richly bound. | Testamenta | | vetusta, i. | | 146; Edwards, i. | | 385. 14 and 15 c. | 158 titles given to Pembroke College, | C. A. S., ii. | Cambridge, by various donors. | (8vo ser.) | Aristotle, Seneca, Aulus Gellius, | 13-21; | Ovid. | James^{10}, | | xiii.-xvii. 15 c. | Robert de Wycliff, rector of Hutton | Surtees Soc., | Rudby in Cleveland, left 5 books: | ii. 66; iv. 405. | incl. Catholicon. | 1400 | 326 volumes at Titchfield Abbey. 102 | Madan, 78-79. | liturgical volumes. Theology, canon | | and civil law, English law, medicine, | | grammar, logic and philosophy. 18 | | French books. | c. 1400 | Meaux Abbey had nearly 350 books, not | Chron. mon. de | counting church books: incl. | Melsa (Rolls | Historia Anglorum, Martial, Seneca, | Ser.) iii. | Ovid, Plato, Suetonius, Cicero. | lxxxiii. 1400 | Thos. de Dalby, archdeacon of Richmond, | Surtees Soc., | left a few church books; Decretals, | xlv. 13. | Catholicon. | 1403 | John de Scarle, Lord Chancellor, left a | Ibid., xlv. 22. | few books: Bible, missal, psalter, | | breviary, Speculum Sacerdotum. | 1404 | Bp. Skirlaw of Durham gave 6 books to | Ibid., vii. 127; | University College, Oxford, where he | iv. 319. | had endowed Fellowships. Left 13 | | church books when he died. | 1409 | Wessington sent 20 books--Bible, | Ibid., vii. | commentaries, etc.--to Durham | 39-41; cp. | College, Oxford; 19 books bought in | O. H. S., 32, | their stead. | Collect. | | 39-40. c. 1410 | Robert Rygge, Chancellor of the | O. H. S., 27, | University of Oxford, left books to | Boase, 11. | Exeter College, Oxford. | 1411 | 34 books added to Christ Church, | Lit. Cant. (Rolls | Canterbury, during time of Prior | Ser.), iii. 121; James, | Chillenden: all canon and civil law. | 150-51. 1412 | Roger de Kyrkby, vicar of Gainford, left | Surtees Soc., ii. 54. | a few books: Legenda Aurea, Gemma | | Ecclesiae, and others not named. | 1413 | N. de Lyra chained in chancel of St. | Mun. Acad., 270. | Mary’s Church, Oxford. | 1414 | Archbp. Arundel left many books: | Hook, Lives of Abps., | “ornamenta oratorii” and books valued | iv. 527. | at over £352. | 1416 | Catalogue of Durham library bears this | Surtees Soc., vii. | date, but it is either the foundation | 85-116. | of the catalogue of 1391 or a copy of | | it. This inventory has been used to | | take stock. | 1416 | William de Waltham, canon of York, left | Surtees Soc., xlv. | a collection of books, only a few of | 57-59. | which are mentioned. Chiefly | | law-books. | 1416 | St. Mary Redclyffe Church, Bristol, had | Cox and Harvey, Eng. | 2 books of canon law. | Ch. Furniture, 331. 1418 | Stephen Scrope, Archdeacon of Richmond, | Surtees Soc., iv. 385. | Chancellor of Cambridge University, | | left a few books of canon law; also | | Catholicon. | 1418 | John de Newton left books to Church of | Hunter, Notes of Wills | York, and to Peterhouse, Cambridge. | in Registers of York, | Bibles, commentaries, theology: incl. | 15; Edwards, i. 386. | Richd. Hampole, Petrarch’s de | | Remediis utriusque fortunae, Seneca, | | Valerius Maximus. | 1418 | 380 volumes now at Peterhouse. Theology | James^{3}, 3-26; Mullinger, | (124), natural and moral philosophy | 324; Clark, 139-41; | and metaphysics (53), canon and civil | cf. Camb. Lit., ii. | law (66), grammar and poetry (23), | 362-67. | logic (20), medicine (18), astronomy | | (13), alchemy, arithmetic, music, | | geometry, rhetoric. Aristotle, Plato, | | Cicero, Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Sallust, | | Quintilian, Seneca, Virgil, Petrarch’s | | Epistles. | 1419 | Wm. Cawod, canon of York, left 13 | Surtees Soc., iv. | books, uninteresting in character. | 395-96. 1420-40 | 49 volumes added to S. Albans in Abbot | Ann. mon. S. Alb. | Whethamstede’s time: incl. some books | a J. Amund., ii. | for the choir, and other books of the | 268-71. | Abbot’s own compilation. | 1420-60 | The library of Winchester College was a | Archæol. Jour., xv. | large collection of liturgical books; | (1858), 62-74. | philosophy, chronicles, canon and | | civil law, grammar. | 1421 | Thos. Greenwood, canon of York, left | Surtees Soc., xlv. | books valued at £31, 4s. Canon and | 64. | civil law. | 1422 | Roger Whelpdale, Bp. of Carlisle, left | Ibid., xlv. 67. | a small number of books to Balliol | | College, Oxford. | 1422 | 9 books sent from Durham to cell of | Ibid., vii. 116. | Stamford, which was in control of | | Durham. | 1423 | Henry Bowet, Archbp. of York, left 33 | Ibid., xlv. 76; | books, worth £33. Bible, theology, | Historians of York | law. | (Rolls Ser.), iii. | | 314. c. 1424 | 10 volumes given to Wells Cathedral by | Hist. MSS., 3rd | Bp. Stafford. Canon law, etc. | Rep., App. 363; | | Archæologia, lvii. | | 208. 1424-40 | 122 volumes in Cambridge University | C. A. S. Comm., ii. | Library. Theology (69), natural and | 242-57; Bradshaw, | moral philosophy (17), canon law | 19-34. | (23), medicine, logic, poetry, | | grammar, history. | 1425 | Sheriff Wm. Chichele bequeathed £10 for | L. A. R., x. 382. | books to Guildhall Library. | 1430 | Robert Ragenhill, advocate of court of | Surtees Soc., xlv. | York, left 5 law books and N. de Lyra | 89. | to Church of York. | 1432 | George Darell de Seszay left 5 books: | Ibid., xxx. 27, 28. | incl. Mandeville. | 1432 | John Raventhorpe, a chaplain, left | Ibid., xxx. 28-29. | service books and grammatical books; | | also Liber Angliae de Fabulis et | | Narracionibus. | 1432 | Robert Wolveden, treasurer of Church of | Ibid., xlv. 91. | York, left theological books to | | Church of York. Cato glossed and | | Golden Legend also left. | 1432 | Dr. Thos. Gascoigne gave 6 books to | Clark, Lincoln College. | Lincoln College, valued £17, 10s. | 1432 | Robert Semer, sub-treasurer of Church of | Surtees Soc., | York, left 5 books, unimportant. | xlv. 91 n. 1434 | J. de Manthorp, vicar of Hayton, left a | Ibid., xxx. 36. | few church books. | 1435 | Æneas Sylvius saw Latin translation of | Creighton, | Thucydides in S. Paul’s Cathedral. | Papacy, iii. | | 53 n. 1435 | T. Hebbeden, dean of Collegiate Church | Surtees Soc., | of Auckland, left a few books; 6 | ii. 82. | mentioned, incl. Guido delle Colonne, | | Lancelot in French. | 1435-36 | Robert Fitzhugh, Bp. of London, left 13 | Simpson, W.S., | books, incl. Textus moralis philosophiae.| Registrum ... | | Eccl. Cath. S. | | Pauli (1873), | | 399. 1436 | Thomas Langley, Bp. of Durham, left over | Surtees Soc., | 40 books. Theology, civil and canon | vii. 119. | law, N. de Lyra. | 1438 | Thomas Cooper of Brasenose Hall left 6 | Mun. Acad., 515. | books: incl. Boëthius, book on | | geometry, Ovid’s Remedia Amoris. | 1439 | Thomas Markaunt, presented to Corpus | C. C. C. MS., 232; | Christi College, Cambridge, 76 books, | C. A. S. Misc. | worth about £104. | comm., 4to | | ser., No. 14, | | pt. 1, 16-20. 1439 | Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, gave 129 | Mun. Acad., | books to Oxford University Library. | 758-65. | See p. 140. | 1440 | 23 books given to All Souls’ College by | B. M. Add. MS., | Henry VI. Civil and canon law, | 4608; Vickers, | theology, philosophy. | H. Duke of | | Gloucester, | | 404. 1440 | Robert Alne, an officer in the | Surtees Soc., | ecclesiastical court of York, left about | xxx. 78-79. | a dozen books. Canon law, etc.; Petrarch,| | de Remediis utriusque fortunae. | 1441 | Andrew Holes, political agent of Henry | Sandys, ii. 222. | VI, bought many manuscripts in Italy. | 1443 | Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, gave 135 | Mun. Acad., | volumes to Oxford University Library. | 765-72 | See p. 142. | 1443 | John Carpenter bequeathed books to | L. A. R., x. | Guildhall Library, London. | 382. 1443 | John Brette, student at Oxford, owned | Mun. Acad., 531. | 1 book, de Formd dictandi, and a | | pamphlet, worth together 1s. 11d. | 1445 | Jas. Hedyan, Bachelor of canon and civil | Ibid., 544. | law, principal of Eagle Hall, Oxford, | | owned 8 books of law. | 1447 | Reginald Mertherderwa, a rector, owned 6 | Ibid., 559-61. | books: grammar, book of civil law, etc.| 1448 | Ralph Dreff, of Broadgates Hall, Oxford, | Ibid., 582. | owned 23 books. Bible, law. | 1448 | At the Hospital of S. Mary within | B. M. Cott. Roll., | Cripplegate, called Elsingspital, | xiii. 10; | London, there were 63 volumes. Bible, | Malcolm, | theology, canon law; Hippocrates, | Londinium | Galen. | Redivivum | | (1807), i. 27; | | Vict. Hist. of | | London, i. 536. 1449 | Thomas Morton, canon of York, left a | Surtees Soc., | small number of church books. | xlv. 110. 1450 | 107 volumes at Lincoln Cathedral at this | Clark, III. | time. | 1450 | Robert Hoskyn, rector, left a small | Mun. Acad., | collection. Church books, canon law. | 605-06. 1451 | Henry Caldey, vicar of Cookfield, left 25| Ibid., 609. | books. Theology, law. Seneca, ad | | Lucilium, Martial, Plato. Value | | £5, 0s. 6d. | 1451 | John Moreton, chaplain, left 6 physical | Ibid., 613. | books. | 1452 | Richard Browne or Cordone, Archdeacon of | Ibid., 639-53. | Rochester, left more than 30 books. | | Theology and law. | 1452 | Wm. Duffield, canon of York, left 40 | Surtees Soc., | volumes, worth £46, 16s. Theology, | xlv. 132-33. | law; Catholicon. | 1453 |King’s College, Cambridge, had a | James^{2}, 72-83. | library of 174 volumes: philosophy, | | theology, medicine, astrology, | | mathematics, canon law, grammar, | | classical and general literature, | | inclu. Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, | | Seneca, Sallust, Cæsar, Ovid, Virgil, | | etc. | 1454 |Richard Plane, rector, left a few church | Surtees Soc., | books. | xxx. 180. 1454 |Cardinal John Kempe left books worth | Hook, Lives of Abps., v. 267. | £263, 8s. 10d. Theology, canon and | | civil law, etc. | 1454 |Wm. Brownyng, canon of Exeter, left | O. H. S., 27, | books to be chained in library of | Boase, xxxvii. n. | Exeter College. | 1455 |John Lassehowe, a scholar, left six | Mun. Acad., 663. | books: grammar, sermons, breviary. | 1455 |Thomas Spray, chaplain, left 2 books: | Ibid., 660. | Liber Sermonum Magdalenae, Manipulus | | curatorum. | 1457 |Thomas Aleby, rector of Kirkby in | Surtees Soc., | Cleveland, left 6 church books. | xxx. 210. 1457 |John Edlyngton, rector of Kirkby | Ibid., xxvi. 2, 3. | Ravensworth, left small collection. | | Bible, liturgical books, Legenda | | Aurea, Polichronicon, etc. | 1457 |John Seggefyld, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln | Mun. Acad., 666. | College, left two books, Boëthius de | | Consol. philos. in English, one of | | Richard Rolle’s works. | 1457 |Doctor Thos. Gascoigne, Chancellor of | Mun. Acad., 671; | Oxford, left books and “quires” | Bateson, xxv. | written on paper to Syon Monastery, | | Isleworth. | 1457 |John Baringham, treasurer of York, left a | Surtees Soc., | small number of liturgical books. | xxx. 203. c. 1458 |John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, bought | O. H. S., 36, | many manuscripts in Italy. | Anstey, ii. 354, | | 390. 1458 1| 71 books at S. Paul’s Cathedral. | Dugdale, Hist. of S. | Grammar (6), philosophy (5), classics | Paul’s (1818), 392-98. | (7), medicine (6), history (8), canon | | law (21), remainder Bible commentaries, | | theology. Cicero, Virgil, Seneca, | | Suetonius, Hippocrates, Galen. | 1458 |Nicholas Holme, canon of the collegiate | Surtees Soc., xxx. 219. |Church of Ripon, left 15 books. | | Liturgical, Richard Rolle of Hampole, 1 | | book of medicine. | 1458 |Wm. Port gave books to New College, | O. H. S. 32, Collect. | Oxford. | 232-33. 1463 | John Baret, lay officer in Bury Abbey, left| Cam. Soc., Bury Wills, | 3 books, Disce mori, “book of ynglych | 35, 41, 246. | and latyn with diuerse maters of good | | exortacons, wretyn in papir,” Lydgate’s | | Story of Thebes. | 1464 | Wm. Downham, chaplain of York, left a | Surtees Soc., xxx. 268. | few books. | 1464 | St. Mary’s Church, Warwick, had 5 | Notices of Churches of Warwickshire, i. 15-16. | books. Bible versified, Pharetra de | | Auctoritatibus, etc. | 1464 | Books bequeathed by John Rowe to Exeter | O. H. S. 27, Boase. | College, Oxford; also Ralph Morewell. | 1464-67 | William Selling, Benedictine monk, | James, li.; Sandys, ii. | collected Greek and Latin books in Italy.| 225. 1466 | John Fernell, chaplain, left a few | Surtees Soc., xxx. 275. | grammatical and other books. | 1466 | At Ewelme Almshouse, Oxford, were | Hist. M.S.S., 8th Rept., |delivered some liturgical books, 4 French| pt. i. 629 a. | books, a “boke of English, in paper, of| | ye pilgrymage, translated by dom John | | Lydgate out of frensh,” and other | | books. | 1468 | Elizabeth Sywardby left 8 books, several | Surtees Soc., xlv. 163. | in English. | 1469 | Sir Richard Willoughby of Woollaton, | Ibid., xlv. 171. | left to parish church of Woollaton | | liturgical books and Crede mihi. | 1469 | Sir Edward Bethum gave books for chaining| Ibid., vii. 126. | in church of Lytham Cell, Lancs. | 1471-72 | Wm. Hawk, rector of Berwick in Elmet, | Surtees Soc., xlv. 220 n. | left 1 psalter. | 1472-73 | Queens’ College, Cambridge, had 224 | C. A. S. Comm., ii. | volumes in the library. Theology, law. | (1864) 165-81. | Aristotle. Catholicon. | 1472 | John Hamundson, master of grammar | Surtees Soc., xlv. 198-99. | school attached to York Minster, left | | book of Chronicles in English, Papias, | | a book called Horsehede. | 1473 | Cambridge University Library comprised | C. A. S. Comm., ii. | 330 volumes. Lucan, Ovid, Aristotle, | (1864) 258-76. | Seneca, Cicero. Petrarch, de Remediis| 1473 | 68 books, mostly Scriptural commentaries,| Carr, Univ. Coll. | given to University College, Oxford, by| (1902), 68. | an old Fellow, Wm. Aspylon. | 1470-75 | Thomas Rotherham gave many books to | Willis, Camb., iii. 25. | the University Library, Cambridge. | 1474-75 | Robert Est, possibly chantry-priest in | Surtees Soc., xlv. 159. | York Minster, left to parish church of | | Brigsley, Lincs., a small collection: | | incl. Legenda Sanctorum, liber de | | Gestis Romanorum cum aliis fabulis Isopi| | et multis narrationibus. | 1475-76 | Thos. Worthington, vicar of Sherburn in | Ibid., xlv. 220 n. | Elmet, left 3 volumes to Balliol College,| | Oxford; unimportant. | 1475-76 | Robt. Echard, rector of East Bridgeford, | Ibid., xlv. 219. | left 10 books, several liturgical, the | | rest unimportant. | 1475 | 104 volumes in library at S. Catharine’s | C. A. S., i. (1840) 1-11. | College, Cambridge. Plato, Aristotle | |(Ethica and Politica), Cicero, Petrarch,| |de Remediis (2 copies), Boccaccio, de | |Casis virorum illustrium, in English. | 1476 | John Hurte, vicar of S. Mary’s, | Surtees Soc., xiv. |Nottingham, left 21 books. Liturgical books,| 220-22. | theology, astronomy, Guido delle | | Colonne’s Troy book. | 1478 | Bp. William Grey gave 200 books to | Coxe, Cat. Cod. Oxon.-Balliol; |Balliol College, Oxford. Nearly all | Mullinger, |were collected in Italy. Plato (Timaeus | Hist. of Univ. of Camb., 397. |and Euthyphro, new translations), the | |Golden Verses of Pythagoras, Cicero, | |incl. some hitherto unknown speeches, | |Quintilian, Seneca. Petrarch’s Letters, | | orations of Poggio Bracciolini, Leonardo | | Bruni, and Guarino da Verona. | 1479 | Thomas Pynchebek of York left 4 books: | Surtees Soc., xlv. 199n. | incl. Richard Rolle of Hampole. | 1479-80 | Robt. Lythe, chaplain, left 6 books, and | Ibid., xlv. 199 and n. | John Burn, another chaplain, | | 5--unimportant. | c. 1480| Bishop John Shirwood of Durham owned | E. H. R., xxv. 455. | a good library, including a fair | | collection of the classics, and Theodore| | Gaza’s Greek grammar. | 1481 | William of Waynflete gave 800 books to | Warren, Magd. Coll., | Magdalen College, Oxford. | 18. 1481 | Sir Thos. Lyttleton left a Catholicon, | Library, i. 411. | Constitutiones Provinciales, and | | Gesta Romanorum to Halesowen Church, | | Worcester. | 1482 | Dr. John Warkworth gave 55 books to | James^{3}, 23-26. | Peterhouse. Terence, Statius: Liber | | Cronic’ in Anglicis, Liber in Gallicis;| | much theology. | 1482 | At Leicester Abbey there were over 350 | Nichols, Hist. of Leicester | books in the library. Bibles and | (1815), i. pt. 2, |commentaries, medieval schoolmen, grammar,| App. 102-08. |sermons, Lucan, Ovid, Horace, | |Virgil, Cicero, Plato, French books, | |Mandevile, Gower; logic, astronomy, | |physics. | 1483 | Robert Flemming left books, which he | Einstein, 23. | had collected in Italy, to Lincoln | | College, Oxford. | 1486 | Church of S. Christopher le Stocks, | Archæologia, xlv. (1880) | London, had a collection of church | 118. | books only. | 1486 | At this time only 52 volumes were in St. | Dugdale, Hist. of S. | Paul’s Cathedral; chiefly liturgical. | Paul’s, 399. 1486 |John Lese of Pontefract left 5 theological| Surtees Soc., xlv. 220-21 n. | books. | 1488 | 31 books presented to Oxford University | | Library by an old scholar. | 1489 |128 volumes presented to Oxford University| Mun. Acad., 357. | Library by Dr. Litchfield, archdeacon | | of Middlesex. | 1489-94 | John Auckland, Prior, presented to | Rudd, Codd. MSS. | Durham Priory, some 33 books; ordinary | Eccles. Cath. Dun. | medieval character. | Catal., 1825, passim. 1491 | Richard Lovet, vicar of Ruddington, left | Surtees Soc., xlv. 221 n. | a few theological books. | 1491 | Thomas Symson of York left 7 theological | Ibid., xlv. 160 n. | books. | 1491 | Over 40 books given to All Souls College,| Robertson, All Souls | Oxford, by John Stokys, Warden. | (Coll. Hist.), 33. 1493 | Roger Drury left “ij Ingyshe bocks, called| Cam. Soc., Bury Wills, | Bochas, of Lydgat’s makyng.” | 246. c. 1497 | St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, | James, lvii. 173. | contained 1837 books. Scriptures, theology,| | natural history, history, philosophy, | | music, geometry, astronomy, medicine, | | logic, grammar, poetry, alchemy, canon | | law. Plato (Timaeus), Aristotle (a great| | deal: Metaphysica, Physica, Rhetorica, | | Ethica, Politica, new trans. of Historia| | naturalium), Terence, Cicero, Horace, | | Virgil (Aeneid, Georgics, Bucolics),| | Ovid, Lucan, Seneca (incl. Tragedies), | | Juvenal, Quintilian, Statius; French | | books--Charlemagne, Historia Britonum,| | Guy of Warwick, Lancelot, Perceval | | of Galles, Holy Graal, Guillaume | | le Maréchal, etc. | 1498 | Collegiate Church of Auckland possessed | Surtees Soc., ii. 101-03. | some 40 volumes. Bible, theological | | and liturgical books, canon law; | | Cicero’s Letters. | 1498 | John Gunthorpe, Dean of Wells, bequeathed | James^{16}, 13. | to Jesus College, Cambridge, | | some manuscripts collected in Italy. | 1499 | William Holcombe left books to Exeter | Oliver, Mon. D. Exon., | College and to friends: including | 278. | Hugutio, Gesta Alexandri. | 1500 | Archbp. Rotherham left to Jesus College, | James^{13}, 5-8. | Rotherham, some hundred volumes. | | Chiefly theology. Terence, Cicero’s | | Orations, ad Familiares, Horace, | | Sallust’s Catilina and Jugurtha, Ovid’s| | Metamorphoses, Ars amandi, Remedia | |Amoris, etc., Petrarch (de Vita solitaria,| |de Remediis utriusque fortunae). | 1506 | 363 volumes in Exeter Cathedral. | Oliver, 366-75. 1508 | 306 books repaired at Christ Church, | James, 152. | Canterbury. Theological, homiletic | | and law books. Livy, Liber grecorum. | 1508 | Abp. Warham gave books to New College. | O. H. S. 32, Collect. | | 232-33. 1509 | Christ’s College, Cambridge, received 57 | C. A. S., iii. (N.S., | liturgical books bequeathed by the | 8vo), 361. | Lady Margaret. | 1519-20 | William Grocyn’s Library comprised 105 | Leland, ii. 317; O. H. S. | printed books and 17 manuscripts. | 16, Collect. 319-23. | Much theology; leading Latin classics. | | Greek and Latin New Testament. | | Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ficino, Filelfo, | | Lorenzo della Valle, Aeneas Sylvius, | | Perotti. Adagia of Erasmus. | 1519 | Robert Same, chaplain, bequeathed 1 | Cam. Soc., Bury Wills, | book to Wetheringsett Church. | 253. 1524 | 292 books at Canterbury College, Oxford, | James, 165. | theology, law, philosophy. Aristotle | | (incl. Ethica newly translated); Cicero,| | Horace, Virgil, Lucan; Boccaccio, | | Lorenzo della Valle. | 1504-26 | At least 1421 volumes in Syon Monastery, | Bateson, passim. | Isleworth. Of the rough classification | | Miss Bateson wrote: “Generally speaking | | A includes grammar and classics (77 | | volumes); B, medicine, astrology, a few | | classics (55); C, philosophy (46); D, | | commentaries on the Sentences (128); | | E, Bibles and concordances (75); F-I, | | commentaries on the Old and New | | Testament (232); K, History (65); L, | | dictionaries (58); M, Lives of the Saints | | (121); N, Fathers (88); O, devotional | | tracts (98); P to S, chiefly sermons, | | over 70 books in each class; T, canon | | law (104); V, civil law (21),”--p. vii. | | Of Latin Renascence literature there | | are works by Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo | | Bruni, Poggio, Bessarion, Platina, | | Poliziano, Pico della Mirandola; and | | translations from the Greek by Hermolaus | | Barbarus, Gaza, Erasmus, and | | others. Also Petrarch (Psalmi poenitentiales), | | Boccaccio (de geneal. deor. | | gent.), Savonarola (de virtute fidei_), | | Reuchlin. This catalogue is of the | | men’s library only: there was another | | library for women. Many of the books | | were printed; nearly 400 editions have | | been identified. | ----------+----------------------------------------------+-----------------