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Biblie.
WOODE P2 osee 2o
Concordancie cum textu expresso.
The catalogue of St. Augustine's, already referred to,
recorded the general title of the volume, or of the first
treatise in it; the name of the donor; the other contents
of the volume; the first words of the second leaf, and
the press-mark. Where necessary, cross-references were
supplied. The press-marks used for monastic books are
generally of two kinds: press-marks properly so called, or
class-marks. At St. Augustine's, Canterbury, the
distinctions or tiers were numbered, as D3; and the
gradus or shelves of each distinction were numbered, as
G 4. A similar method seems to have been adopted for
St. Albans; in one book from that abbey is this mark:
"de armariolo 4/A et quarto gradu fiber quartus."[1] But
such a mark assigned a book to one particular place and
fixed its relation to other books. Consequently, if any
large accession were made to the library, the classification
of the books in broad subject-divisions could only be
maintained by the alteration of many press-marks, both
on the books and in the catalogue.
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