. Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. ° z 5 «2 t- h ^En a a century. Two notices occur of it, one in 1340 andanother in 1406, in both cases in connection with animage of the Holy Saviour, near the library. But in the fifteenth century a new library was built PLA TE XXI. CHURCH LIBRARIES 123 over the eastern cloister. Bishop Nicholas of Bubwith,in his will of 1424, bequeathed one thousand marks tobe faithfully applied and disposed for the construction andnew building of a certain library to be newly erected uponthe eastern space of the cloister
. Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. ° z 5 «2 t- h ^En a a century. Two notices occur of it, one in 1340 andanother in 1406, in both cases in connection with animage of the Holy Saviour, near the library. But in the fifteenth century a new library was built PLA TE XXI. CHURCH LIBRARIES 123 over the eastern cloister. Bishop Nicholas of Bubwith,in his will of 1424, bequeathed one thousand marks tobe faithfully applied and disposed for the construction andnew building of a certain library to be newly erected uponthe eastern space of the cloister, situate between the southdoor of the church next the chamber of the escheator ofthe church and the gate which leads directly from thechurch by the cloister into the palace of the bishop.^ Thework was begun by his executors, but certain signs ofbreak in the building suggest some delay in finishing room is probably the only cathedral library built overa cloister which remains in its original completeness. Itis 16 5 feet by 12 feet; now only about two-thirds of itare devoted to the library. When this room was firstfitted up as a library no one knows ; but tradition fixesthe date at 1472. The present fittings were put in duringBishop Creightons time (1670-72). Shortly after the date of Bubwiths will Bishop
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