. Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. testhemselves. ^ The Cluniacs could almost be called afashionable order. During this prosperous age some of the great housesdid their best work in writing and study. Thus to pickout one or two facts from a string of them. In 1104Abbot Peter of Gloucester gave many books to the abbeylibrary. In 1180 the refounded abbey of Whitby owneda fair library of theological, historical, and classical books.^About the same time Abbot Benedict ordered the tran-scription of sixty volumes, containing one hundred titles,fo
. Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. testhemselves. ^ The Cluniacs could almost be called afashionable order. During this prosperous age some of the great housesdid their best work in writing and study. Thus to pickout one or two facts from a string of them. In 1104Abbot Peter of Gloucester gave many books to the abbeylibrary. In 1180 the refounded abbey of Whitby owneda fair library of theological, historical, and classical books.^About the same time Abbot Benedict ordered the tran-scription of sixty volumes, containing one hundred titles,for his library at Peterborough.* By 1244, in spite oflosses in the fire of 1184, Glastonbury had a library ofsome four hundred volumes, historical books consortingwith romances, Bibles and patristical works almost crowdingout some forlorn classics.^ Nearly half a century later Stevenson, Grosseteste, 149. 2 Gesta R. Angl., lib. v. ; Camb. Lit., i. 159-60. Surtees S., Ixix. 341. * Merry weather, 96-7. ^ Joh. Glaston, Chronica, ed. Hearne (1726), ii, 423-44; Merryweather, 140. PLATE VII. ABBOT ROGER DE NORTHONE WITH HIS BOOKS
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