This library
was on the west side of the quadrangle. A library for
Clare Hall was built between 1420 and 1430. A little
before this a new library was begun for King's Hall,
probably to replace a smaller room. For the books of
Pembroke College a storey was added to the Hall about
1452. The early collection of Gonville Hall was kept in
a strong-room; then in 1441 a special room was included
in the buildings on the west side of the quadrangle. At
Trinity Hall the books were stored in a room over the
passage from one court to the other and at the east end of
the chapel, and here they remained until after the Reformation.
The early library room of Corpus Christi was in
the Old Court, on the first floor next to the Master's lodge.
In Queens', St. Catharine's, Jesus Christ's, St. John's and
Magdalene a library formed a part of the original quadrangle.[1]
[1] Willis, i. 200, 226; iii. 411.
CHAPTER VIII. ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: THEIR ECONOMY
Here it will be convenient to give some account of the
regulations for the use of books in colleges, both at
Oxford and Cambridge. The University libraries
were for reference: the College libraries were for both
reference and lending use, and the regulations are therefore
different in essentials.
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