[5]
[1] Chron. abb. de Evesham, 267.
[2] Robinson, 4.
[3] O. H. S., 27, Boase, 19.
[4] Rymer, Foedera, viii. 501; cf. James 17, 153.
[5] Cam. Soc., Bury Wills (1850), 105. Many of the gifts to Syon
monastery came from priests.--Bateson, xxiii-xxvii. Cf. also
lists of donors in James (M. R.), 535 et seq.
[6] Cf James (M R.), lxxii n.
Section II
Some miniatures in early manuscripts give us a good
idea of the way books were stored in the Middle Ages.
They are shown lying flat on sloping shelves which extend
part-way round the room. Curtains are occasionally shown
hanging in front of the shelves to protect the books from
dust. Or a sloping shelf was fitted to serve as a reading-
desk, and a second flat shelf ran beneath it to take books
lying on their sides one above the other. In several
miniatures lecterns of very curious design are often depicted;
some of them stood on a cupboard or cupboards
wherein books were stowed away.
In the monasteries books were stored in various places,
--in chests, cupboards, or recesses in the wall. When the
collection was small, a chest served; a receptacle of this
kind is illustrated at p.
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