This room was altered and
reduced in size in 1758. About the time the room was
completed one of the canons gave some books, on the
inside covers of two of which is a note in a fifteenth century
hand bidding they should be chained in the new library.[4]
Nearly two hundred manuscripts, of various date from the
ninth to the fourteenth century, are now in the library.
Among them several notable volumes are to be found: a
Psalter with curious illuminations; another Psalter, with the
Gallican and Hebrew of Jerome's translation in parallel
columns, also illuminated; Chaucer's translation of Boethius;
Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain of
the twelfth century; a thirteenth century Lectionary, with
golden and coloured initials; a Tonale according to Sarum
use, bound with a fourteenth century Ordinal; and a
fifteenth century Processional containing some notes on local
customs.
[1] W. of Malmesbury, Gesta Pont., 184.
[2] Register of St. Osmund, i. 8, 214.
[3] Register of St. Osmund, i. 224.
[4] Cox and Harvey, English Church Furniture, 331.
Section V
Books were given to Lincoln Cathedral about 1150 by
Hugh of Leicester; one of them bears the inscription, Ex
dono Hugonis Archidiaconi Leycestriae.
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