. Old english librerie; il processo decisionale, raccolta e uso dei libri durante il medioevo. ered con la pelle ma sono state dipinte. Se un libro è stato particolarmente apprezzato il legame era oftenrich. I coperchi dei Vangeli di Lindau, superbexample dell'arte carolingia, portano quasi cinquecento gemsencrusted in oro.^ abate Paul di St Albans diede al hischurch due libri adornati con oro e argento e gemme.Abate Goffredo di Malmesbury, in parte per soddisfare una pesante taximposed da William Rufus, spogliato dodici vangeli di theirdecorations. I libri sono rivestiti con pietre preziose, criedSt. Girolamo, mentre Cristi poveri muoiono

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. Old English libraries; the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. ered with skin but were painted. If a book was specially prized the binding was oftenrich. The covers of the Gospels of Lindau, a superbexample of Carolingian art, bear nearly five hundred gemsencrusted in gold.^ Abbot Paul of St. Albans gave to hischurch two books adorned with gold and silver and gems.Abbot Godfrey of Malmesbury, partly to meet a heavy taximposed by William Rufus, stripped twelve Gospels of theirdecorations. Books are clothed with precious stones, criedSt. Jerome, whilst Christs poor die in nakedness at thedoor.^ In spite of the many references to jewelledmonastic bindings in medieval records, very few are extant. Now in Mr. Pierpont Morgans library. Illustrated in La Bibliofilia, xi. 169. ^ Cf. Register of S. Osmund, ii. 127. Textus unus aureus magnus continenssaphiros xx., et smaragdos [emeralds] vi., et thopasios viii., et alemandinas[? carbuncle or ruby] xviii., et gernettas [garnets] viii., et perlas xii. Also i. 276;ii. 43. Jerome, Ad Eustoch, Ep. 18. PLATE XVII. MEDIEVAL BINDING: MR. YATES THOMPSONS HEGESIPPUS CHAPTER VCATHEDRAL AND CHURCH LIBRARIES §1 TO the books of the monastery some human interestclings: we can at once conjure up a picture of thecloister and the scribe at his work; the handling ofan old manuscript, the turning over of finely-written andquaintly-illuminated yellow pages, throws the mind flashingback centuries to the silent writer in his carrell. But thechurch library is not rich in associations. It was a small working collection: one part for the use of the clergy, the other part—consisting of a few chained books—forthe use of the people. These chained books, which nowsuggest a scarcely conceivable restriction upon the circula-tion of literature—even theological literature—were, in fact, the sign of a glimmer of liberal thought in the church.During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, not onlywere monastic books issued to lay

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• bookcentury1900
• bookdecade19
• booksubjectlibraries
• bookyear1912