Note 105 — Chapter IV
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There was an old saying, and a true one, prevalent in those days, that a monastery without a library was like a castle without an armory, Clastrum sine armario, quasi castrum sine armamentario. See letter of Gaufredi of St. Barbary to Peter Mangot, Martene Thes. Nov. Anecd., tom. i. col. 511.