[4]
[1] The indenture in which the books are catalogued mentions nine
books received before: possibly these were the gift of
1435.--Mun. Acad., 758; O. H. .S. 35, Anstey, 177.
[2] O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 184-90.
[3] O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 184.
[4] Mun. Acad., 758.
Congregation further marked its appreciation by decreeing
a fresh set of library regulations. A new register,
containing a list of the books already given, was to be
made, and deposited in the chest "of five keys"; lists were
also to be written in the statute books. No volume was
to be sold, given away, exchanged, pledged, lent to be
copied, or removed from the library--except when it needed
repair, or when the Duke himself wanted to borrow it, as
he could, though only under indenture.[1] All books for
the study of the seven liberal arts--the trivium and the
quadrivium--and the three philosophies were to be kept in
a chest called the "chest of the three philosophies and the
seven sciences"; a name suggesting a talisman, like the
golden fleece or the Holy Grail, for which one would
exchange the world and all its ways. The librarian had
charge of this wonderful chest.
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