. Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. cripts.^ An apartment of thiskind is particularly mentioned as being saved from theflames when Armagh monastery was burned (1020).Another fact suggesting an abundance of books was theappointment of a librarian, which sometimes took place.*Although a special book-room and officer are only to bemet with much later than the best age of Irish monachism,yet we may reasonably assume them to be the naturalculmination of an old and established practice of makingand using books. Such statements, however, are not ne
. Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. cripts.^ An apartment of thiskind is particularly mentioned as being saved from theflames when Armagh monastery was burned (1020).Another fact suggesting an abundance of books was theappointment of a librarian, which sometimes took place.*Although a special book-room and officer are only to bemet with much later than the best age of Irish monachism,yet we may reasonably assume them to be the naturalculmination of an old and established practice of makingand using books. Such statements, however, are not necessarily con-tradictory. Manuscripts over which the cleverest scribesand illuminators had spent much time and pains would bejealously preserved in cases or shrines; still, when weremember how many precious fruits of the past must have Adamnan, 36511. ^ Hyde, 220; Stokes (M.), 10, Connachtach, an Abbot of lona who diedin 802, is called in the Irish annals a scribe most choice.—Trenholme,lona, 32. Tech-screptra ; domus scripturarum. * Leabhar coimedach. Adamnan, 359, note m. PLATE I. OHm W O H >o u
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