[2] At Oxford, after
mid-fourteenth century, every student friar had set apart
for him a place fitted with a combined desk and bookcase,
or studium, of the kind commonly depicted in medieval
illuminations. Grants of timber for making these studia
are recorded: to the Black Friars of Oxford, for example,
of seven oaks to repair their studies.[3]
[1] Maitland, 404-405.
[2] Stat. selecta Cap. Gen. O. Cisterc., A.D. 1278, Martene, iv.
1462; Maitland, 406.
[3] O. H. S., Little, 55.
The arrangements in the cloister are carefully described
in the Durham Rites. At Durham "in the north syde of
the cloister, from the corner over against the church dour
to the corner over againste the Dortor dour, was all
fynely glased, from the highs to the sole within a litle
of the grownd into the cloister garth. And in every
wyndowe iij pewes or carrells, where every one of the old
Monks had his carrell, severall by himselfe, that, when
they had dyned, they dyd resorte to that place of Cloister
and there studyed upon there books, every one in his
carrell, all the after nonne, unto evensong time. This was
there exercise every daie.
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