INDEX

Adam de Botheby, Abbot of Peterborough, 145.

Adam, Abbot of Evesham, 196.

Adrian IV., Pope of Rome, Anecdote of, 259, 260.

Ælfric, Archbishop of Canterbury, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73.

Ælfride, King of Northumbria, 160, 163.

Ælsinus, the Scribe, 232.

Ailward's Gift of Books to Evesham Monastery, 195.

Albans, Abbey of St.—See St. Albans.

Alcuin, Verses by, 33, 179, 180. Letters of, 98, 175, 181. His Bible, 177. Love of Books, 173, 176, 182.

Aldred, the Glossator, 95.

Aldwine, Bishop of Lindesfarne, 99.

Alfred the Great, 151.

Angell de Pisa, a Franciscan Friar, 291.

Angraville.—See Richard de Bury.

Anselm, 77, 78.

Antiquarii, 42, 43.

Arno, Archbishop of Salzburgh, Library of, 183, 184.

Armarian, Duties of the Monkish, 13.

Aristotle; Translation used by the Schoolmen, 290.

Ascelin, Prior of Dover, 90.

Augustine, St., his copy of the Bible and other books, 79.

Baldwin, Abbot of, St. Edmund's Bury, 242.

Bale on the destruction of books at the Reformation, 8.

Barkley's description of a Bibliomaniac, 301, 302, 303, 304.

Basingstoke and his Greek books, 267.

Bede the Venerable, 129, 162, 163, 170, 243.

Bek, Anthony, Bishop of Durham, 104.

Benedict, Abbot of Peterborough, and his books, 142, 143.

Benedict, Biscop of Wearmouth, and his book tours, 157, 158.

Bible among the Monks in the middle ages, 79, 89, 101, 104, 129, 144, 163, 177, 193, 194, 196, 207, 208, 211, 212, 233, 234, 237, 260, 261.

Bible, Monkish care in copying the, 36, 177.

Bible, errors in printed copies, 36.

Bible, Translations of, 71, 72, 156, 185, 296, note.

Bible, Illustrations of the scarcity of the, in the middle ages, 40, 41, 89, 148, 231.

Bible, Students in the middle ages, 36, 71, 75, 88, 104, 144, 163, 168, 177, 184.

Bilfrid the Illuminator, 95.

Binding, costly, 54, 85, 93, 246, 247, 258, 261, 262, 263, 273.

Blessing—Monkish blessing on Books, 25.

Boniface the Saxon Missionary, 45, 164, 165, 166, 167.

Books allowed the Monks for private reading, 20.

Books-Destroyers, 6, 7, 8, 9, 195, 282.

Books sent to Oxford by the Monks of Durham, 105.

Book-Stalls, Antiquity of, 123.

Booksellers in the middle ages, 46, 47.

Britone the Librarian—his catalogue of books in Glastonbury Abbey, 208.

Bruges, John de, a Monk of Coventry, and his books, 191.

Cædmon, the Saxon Poet, 185.

Canterbury Monastery, etc., 61.

Canute, the Song of, 244.

Care in transcribing, 33, 68.

Carelepho, Bishop of Durham, 101.

Carmelite, 287, 297.

Carpenter, Bishop, built and endowed a library in Exeter Church, 194.

Catalogues of Monastic libraries, 10, 14, 82, 83, 102, 129, 130, 142, 147, 179, 180, 190, 191, 208, 209, 210, 211, 219, 220, 237.

Catalogue of the books of Guy Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, 283, 284, 285.

Charles V. of France—his fine Library.

Charlemagne's Bible, 177, his Library, 184.

Chartey's, William, Catalogue of the Library of St. Mary's at Leicester, 148.

Chiclely, Henry, Archbishop of Canterbury, 86.

Cistercian Monks in England, 221.

Classics among the Monks in the middle ages, 60, 84, 87, 101, 102, 116, 122, 129, 148, 190, 200, 208, 225, 226, 232, 233, 240.

Classics, Monkish opinion of the, 23, 227.

Classics found in Monasteries at the revival of learning, 58, 59, 60.

Cluniac Monks in England, 221.

Cobham, Eleanor Duchess of Gloucester, 277, 278.

Cobham, Bishop, founded the Library at Oxford, 194.

Collier on the destruction of books, 8.

Converting Miracles, 166.

Coventry Church, 191.

Coventry Miracles, 299.

Croyland Monastery, Library of, 135.

Cuthbert's Gospels, 93, 129.

Danes in England, 95, 138, 139, 140.

Daniel, Bishop of Winchester, 168.

De Bury.—See Richard de Bury.

De Estria and his Catalogue of Canterbury Library, 81.

Depying Priory, Catalogue of the Library of, 234.

Dover Library, 90.

Dunstan, Saint, 64, 65.

Eadburge—Abbess, transcribes books for Boniface, 169, 170.

Eadfrid, Abbot of St. Albans, 249.

Eadmer, Abbot of St. Albans, 251, 252.

Ealdred, Abbot of St. Albans, 250.

Eardulphus, or Eurdulphus, Bishop of Lindesfarne, 96.

Ecgfrid and his Queen, 242.

Edmunds Bury, St., 241.

Edwine the Scribe, 79.

Effects of Gospel Reading, 236.

Effects of the Reformation on Monkish learning, 8.

Egbert, Archbishop of York, 170, 173, his Library, 179, 180.

Egebric, Abbot of Croyland, his gift of books to the Library, 137.

Egfrith, Bishop of Lindesfarne, 93.

Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, 277, 278.

Ethelbert, 87.

Etheldredæ founds the Monastery of Ely, 243.

Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester his love of Architecture, 229, 244, his fine Benedictional, 230.

Ely Monastery, 243, 244. Extracts from the Account Books of, 245.

Erventus the Illuminator, 147.

Esseburn, Henry, 296.

Evesham Monastery, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204.

Fathers, Veneration for the, 38, 39.

Frederic, Abbot of St. Albans, 253.

Franciscan Library at Oxford, 294.

Friars, Mendicant, 115, 116, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294.

Geoffry de Gorham, Abbot of St. Albans, 255, 256.

Gerbert, extract from a letter of, 45.

Gift of books to Richard de Bury by the Monks of St. Albans, 121.

Glanvill, Bishop of Rochester, 91.

Glastonbury Abbey, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214.

Gloucester Abbey, 218.

Godeman, Abbot of Gloucester, 218.

Godemann the Scribe, 231, 232.

Godfrey, Abbot of Peterborough, 145, 146.

Godinge the Librarian to Exeter Church, 193, 194.

Godiva, Lady and her good deeds, 193, 194.

Gospels, notices of among the Monks in the middle ages, 86, 89, 90, 91, 92, 129, 139, 140, 141, 142, 169, 196, 217, 221, 244, 245, 246, note, 255, 262.

Graystane, Robert de, 105.

Grostest, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, 292, 293.

Gundulph, Bishop of Rochester, 87.

Guthlac, St., of Croyland, 135.

Guy, Earl of Warwick, his gift of books to Bordesley Abbey, 283, 284, 285.

Hebrew Manuscripts among the Monks, 238, 293, 294.

Henry the Second of England, 223, 227.

Henry de Estria and his Catalogue of Canterbury Library, 81.

Henry, a Monk of Hyde Abbey, 231, 232.

Hilda, 184.

Holdernesse, Abbot of Peterborough, 145.

Hoton, Prior of Durham, 105.

Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, 79.

Hunting practised by the Monks and Churchmen, 224.

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 275. His domestic troubles, 277, 278, 279. His death, 279. Lydgate's Verses upon, 280, 281. His Gift of Books to Oxford, 281, 282, 283.

Illuminated MSS., 54.

Ina, King of the West Saxons, 206.

Jarrow, 157.

John de Bruges of Coventry Church, 191.

John, Prior of Evesham, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204.

John of Taunton, a Monk of Glastonbury, his Catalogue of Books, 208.

Kenulfus, Abbot of Peterborough, 141.

Kinfernus, Archbishop of York, gift of the Gospels to Peterborough Monastery, 141.

Kildwardly, Archbishop of Canterbury, 79.

Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, 75.

Langley, Thomas, 131.

Laws of the Universities over booksellers, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52.

Lending books, system of among the Monks, 17, 20; by the booksellers, 52.

Leoffin, Abbot of Ely, 244.

Leofric, Abbot of St. Albans, 249.

Leofric, Bishop of Exeter, 218; his Private Library, 219.

Leofricke, Earl of Mercia, 192.

Leofricus, Abbot of Peterborough, 141.

Leicester, Abbey of St. Mary de la Pré, at, 148, 149.

Libraries in the middle ages.—See Catalogues.

Libraries, how supported, 24, 25, 79, 198, 199.

Librarii, or booksellers, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49.

Lindesfarne, 93.

Livy, the lost decades of, 214.

Lul, Majestro, 168, 169.

Lulla, Bishop of Coena, 171.

Lydgate's Verses on Baldwin, Abbot of St. Edmunds Bury, 242; on Duke Humphrey, 280, 281.

Malmsbury Monastery, 214.

Malmsbury, William of, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219.

Mannius, Abbot of Evesham, his skill in illuminating, 195.

Manuscripts, Ancient, described, 78, 79, 186, 187.

Manuscripts, Collections of, 5.

Marleberg, Thomas of, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202.

Medeshamstede, 139.

Mendicant Friars, 115, 116, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294.

Michael de Wentmore, Abbot of St. Albans, and his multis voluminibus, 268.

Milton and Cædmon compared, 188.

Monachism, 29, 36, 307, 308, 309.

Monastic training, 263, 264, 265.

Monks, the preservers of books, 29.

Nicholas, of St. Albans, 267, 292.

Nicholas Brekspere, 259, 260.

Nicholas Hereford, of Evesham, 203, 204.

Nigel, Bishop of Ely, 244, 245, 246.

Norman Conquest. Effect of the, 74.

Northone, Abbot of St. Albans, 267.

Nothelm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 64, 171.

Offa, King, 4, 192, 247. Alcuin's Letter to, 175.

Osbern, of Shepey, 91.

Oswald, Bishop of Worcester, 24, 193.

Paul or Paulinus, of St. Albans, 77, 253.

Peter of Blois, Archdeacon of London, 47, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228.

Peter, Abbot of Gloucester, 218.

Peterborough Monastery, 138. Library, 147, 148.

Petrarch, 107, 108, 109.

Philobiblon, by Richard de Bury, 112.

Prior John, of Evesham, 199.

Puritans destroy the Library in Worcester Church, 194.

Purple Manuscripts, 54.

Pusar, Hugh de, Bishop of Durham, 103.

Radolphus, Bishop of Rochester, 90.

Ralph de Gobium, Abbot of St. Albans, 257, 258.

Ramsey Abbey, 237. Hebrew MSS. at Ramsey, 239. Classics, 240.

Raymond, Prior of St. Albans, 262, 263.

Reading Abbey. Library of, 233.

Reginald, Archdeacon of Salisbury, reproved for his love of falconry, 227.

Reginald, of Evesham, 196.

Richard de Albini, 255.

Richard de Bury, 17, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 268.

Richard de Stowe, 218.

Richard of London, 145.

Richard Wallingford, Abbot of St. Albans, 121.

Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury, 213, 214.

Ridiculous signs for books.—See signs.

Rievall Monastery, library of, 190, 191, 192.

Robert de Gorham, Abbot of St. Albans, 257, 258.

Robert, of Lyndeshye, 144.

Robert, of Sutton, 145.

Roger de Northone, 267.

Roger de Thoris, Archdeacon of Exeter. Gift of books to the Friars at Exeter, 294, 295.

Rhypum Monastery; gift of books to, 163.

Scarcity of Parchment, 56, 57, 245, 246.

Scholastic Philosophy, 289.

Scribes, Monkish, 44.

Scriptoria, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 198, 199, 253, 254.

Sellinge, William, Prior of Canterbury, 86.

Signs for books used by the Monks, 22, 23.

Simon, Abbot of St. Albans, 260.

St. Alban's Abbey, 120, 121, 247, et seq.

St. Joseph, of Arimathea, 206.

St. Mary's, at Coventry, 191, 192.

St. Mary's de la Pré, at Leicester. Library of, 149.

Stylus or pen, 154.

Tatwine, Archbishop of Canterbury, 63.

Taunton, John of, 208.

Taunton, William of, 211.

Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 62.

Thomas de la Mare, Abbot of St. Albans, 268.

Thomas of Marleberg, Prior of Evesham, 197.

Trompington, William de, Abbot of St. Albans, 265, 266.

Tully's de Republica, 86.

Valerius Maximus, Duke Humphrey's copy of, 282.

Value of books in the middle ages, 54, 203, 204, 245, 273, 282, 283, 295.

Verses written in books by Whethamstede, 274.

Verulam, ruins of, excavated by Eadmer, of St. Albans, 250.

Waleran, Bishop of Rochester, 91.

Walter, Bishop of Rochester, 91.

Walter, Bishop of Winchester, fond of hunting, 224, 225.

Walter, of Evesham, 196.

Walter, of St. Edmunds Bury, 145.

Walter, Prior of St. Swithin, 231.

Wearmouth, Monastery of, 157.

Wentmore, Abbot of St. Albans, 268.

Whethamstede, Abbot of St. Albans, 268, 269; his works, 272; gift of books to Gloucester college, 274.

Whitby Abbey, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189.

Wilfrid, 162, 163, 243.

Willigod, Abbot of St. Albans, 248.

William, of Wodeforde, 145.

Winchester, famous for his Scribes, 168, 229, 230, 231, 232.

Worcester, Church of, 192.

Wulstan, Archbishop of York, 147.

York Cathedral Library, 179, 180.