. Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. ontriv-ances called carrells for the comfort of the monks atstudy.* Such recesses are to be found at Worcester andGloucester; remains of some exist at the south end of thewest walk of the cloisters at Chester, and others were inthe destroyed south walk.* At Gloucester Cathedral,which was formerly the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter,are twenty beautiful carrells in the south cloister. Theyproject below the ten main windows, two in each, and arearched, with battlemented tops or cornices. Except forthe small d
. Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. ontriv-ances called carrells for the comfort of the monks atstudy.* Such recesses are to be found at Worcester andGloucester; remains of some exist at the south end of thewest walk of the cloisters at Chester, and others were inthe destroyed south walk.* At Gloucester Cathedral,which was formerly the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter,are twenty beautiful carrells in the south cloister. Theyproject below the ten main windows, two in each, and arearched, with battlemented tops or cornices. Except forthe small double window which lights them, they look likerecesses for statuary. The Carthusian Rule records that few monks of theorder could not write.^ But this was by no means invari-ably the case. In early monastic times writing was usuallythe occupation of the weaker brethren: for example, ^ Surtees Soc, xv., Durham Rites, 70-71.^ Chron. abb. de Evesham, 301. James (M. R.), li.; Cox, Canterbury, igg.* Windle, Chester, 171-172; Library, ii. 285. G^raud, Essai sur les livres, i8i. PLATE .XIIf. THE CLOISTERS, GLOUCESTER, SHEWING CARRELLS BOOK-MAKING AND COLLECTING ^^
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