[1] James (M. R.), xiv, 502-503; Camb. Univ. Lib. MS., Ff. 4. 40,
last fol.
[2] Clark, 133.
Besides the example of an audit at Canterbury we have
one belonging to Durham, a little later in date (1416).
The list of books assigned to the Spendement was evidently
read over, and a tick or point was put against every
volume found in its place. On a second check certain
books were accounted for, and notes of their whereabouts
were added to the inventory. Some were found in the
cloister, others were in the library; the prior of Finchale
had a number; many had been sent to Oxford. In one
case a book is noted as given to Bishop Kempe of London.[1]
[1] Surtees Soc., vii. 85.
The catalogue was usually a simple inventory. Sometimes
the entries were classified, as in the case of a
catalogue of the York library of the Friars Eremites of
the Augustinian order. The fifteenth-century catalogue
of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, is classified under sixteen
headings, but it is probably incomplete.[1] As a rule the
entries were only just sufficient to identify the books: all
the treatises in a volume were not often recorded, but only
the title of the first.
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