. Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. d Hebrew of Jeromes translation in parallelcolumns, also illuminated ; Chaucers translation of Boethius;Geoffrey of Monmouths History of the Kings of Britain ofthe twelfth century; a thirteenth century Lectionary, withgolden and coloured initials; a Tonale according to Sarumuse, bound with a fourteenth century Ordinal; and afifteenth century Processional containing some notes on localcustoms. § V Books were given to Lincoln Cathedral about 1150 byHugh of Leicester; one of them bears the inscription. Exdono
. Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. d Hebrew of Jeromes translation in parallelcolumns, also illuminated ; Chaucers translation of Boethius;Geoffrey of Monmouths History of the Kings of Britain ofthe twelfth century; a thirteenth century Lectionary, withgolden and coloured initials; a Tonale according to Sarumuse, bound with a fourteenth century Ordinal; and afifteenth century Processional containing some notes on localcustoms. § V Books were given to Lincoln Cathedral about 1150 byHugh of Leicester; one of them bears the inscription. Exdono Hugonis Archidiaconi Leycestriae. They may still beseen at Lincoln. Forty-two volumes and a map came into thecharge of Hamo when he became chancellor in 115 o.* Duringhis chancellorship thirty-one volumes were added by gift, somaking the total seventy-three volumes : Bishops Alexanderand Chesney were among the benefactors. But here, as at Register of St, Osmund, i. 224. ^ Cox and Harvey, English Church Furniture, 331. ?? See list in Giraldus Cambrensis, vii. 165-166. FLA TF. XX. < z3 a!< Pow K H CHURCH LIBRARIES 119 Salisbury, not until the fifteenth century was a separatelibrary room built. Two gifts to the new library byBishop Repyngton—who also befriended Oxford UniversityLibrary—and Chancellor Duffield in 1419 and 1426, fixthe date. It was put up over the north half of the easterncloisters, relatively the same position as at Salisbury andWells. Originally it had five bays, but in 1789 the twosouthernmost bays were pulled down: In this room thefine fifteenth century oaken roof, with its carved ornaments,has been preserved, but at Salisbury the roof is modern, witha plaster ceiling: Lincolns new library, designed by Wrenand erected in 1674, is next to this old room. Accordingto a 1450 catalogue now preserved at Lincoln the librarycontained one hundred and seven works, more than seventyof which now remain. Among the most important manu-scripts are a mid-fifteenth c
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