Note 296 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
Since writing the above, which I gave on the authority of Green (Hist. of Worc. vol. i. p. 79), backed with the older one of Thomas (Survey Ch. Worc. p. 70), I have had the opportunity of consulting the reference given by them (Heming, Chart. p. 262), and was somewhat surprised to find the words "Et bibliothecam, in duobus partibus divisam," the foundation of this pleasing anecdote. "Bibliothecam," however, was the Latin for a Bible in the middle ages: so that in fact the Lady Godiva gave them a Bible divided into two parts, or volumes.