[3] Warton, i. 213
[4] Mon. Fr., i. 206.
[5] O, H, S., Little, 135; best account of Adam in this book.
[6] C. A. S. (N.S.), 8vo ser. vii. 187 (1909). The story of the
connexion between Chesterton and Vercelli is n1ost interesting. A
list of the books is in Lampugnani, Sulla Vita di Guala
Bicchieri, Vercelli (1842), 125 et seq.; but I have not been able
to see the book. See further Bekynton's Correspondence, ii. 344
(Rolls Ser.); and Kennedy, Poems of Cynewulf (1910), 6.
In some abbeys the purchase of books, and the copying
of them for sale, became just as much a business as the
manufacture of Chartreuse. In 1446 Exeter College,
Oxford, paid ten shillings and a penny for twelve quires
and two skins of parchment bought at Abingdon to send to
the monastery of Plympton in Devonshire, where a book
was being written for the College.[1] A part--and by no
means a negligible part--of the income of Carthusian
houses came from copying books. Two continental abbots,
Abbot Gerbert of Bobio and Servatus Lupus of Ferrieres,
were book-makers and sellers on a commercial scale. Lupus,
in particular, betrays the commercial spirit by refusing to
give more than he was obliged in return for what he
received.
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