Bibliomania
In recent times, in spite of all those outcries which have been so repeatedly raised against the illiterate state of the dark ages, many and valuable efforts have been made towards a just elucidation of those monkish days. These labors have produced evidence of what few antici...
In recent times, in spite of all those outcries which have been so repeatedly raised against the illiterate state of the dark ages, many and valuable efforts have been made towa...
2. Chapter 2_Duties of the monkish librarian.--Rules of the library.--Lending books.--Books allowed the monks for private reading.--Ridiculous signs for books.--How the libraries were suppo...
3. Chapter 3As the monasteries were the schools of learning, so their occupants were the preservers of literature, and, as Herault observes, had they not taken the trouble to transcribe boo...
4. Chapter 4_Canterbury Monastery.--Theodore of Tarsus.--Tatwine.--Nothelm.--St. Dunstan.--Ælfric.--Lanfranc.--Anselm.--St. Augustine's books.--Henry de Estria and his Catalogue.--Chiclely....
5. Chapter 5_Lindesfarne.--St. Cuthbert's Gospels.--Destruction of the Monastery.--Alcuin's Letter on the occasion.--Removal to Durham.--Carelepho.--Catalogue of Durham Library.--Hugh de Pu...
6. Chapter 6_Croyland Monastery.--Its Library increased by Egebric.--Destroyed by Fire.--Peterborough.--Destroyed by the Danes.--Benedict and his books.--Anecdotes of Collectors.--Catalogue...
7. Chapter 7The latter part of the tenth century was a most memorable period in the annals of monkish bibliomania, and gave birth to one of the brightest scholars that ever shone in the dar...
8. Chapter 8_Benedict Biscop and his book tours.--Bede.--Ceolfrid.--Wilfrid.--Boniface the Saxon Missionary--His love of books.--Egbert of York.--Alcuin.--Whitby Abbey.--Cædmon.--Classics i...
9. Chapter 9_Old Glastonbury Abbey.--Its Library.--John of Taunton.--Richard Whiting.--Malmsbury.--Bookish Monks of Gloucester Abbey.--Leofric of Exeter and his private library.--Peter of B...
10. Chapter 10_Winchester famous for its Scribes.--Ethelwold and Godemann.--Anecdotes.--Library of the Monastery of Reading.--The Bible.--Library of Depying Priory.--Effects of Gospel Reading...
11. Chapter 11_St. Alban's.--Willigod.--Bones of St. Alban.--Eadmer.--Norman Conquest.--Paul and the Scriptorium.--Geoffry de Gorham.--Brekspere the "Poor Clerk".--Abbot Simon and his "multis...
12. Chapter 12The old monastic orders of St. Augustine and St. Benedict, of whose love of books we have principally spoken hitherto, were kept from falling into sloth and ignorance in the thi...
13. Chapter 13We have traversed through the darkness of many long and dreary centuries, and with the aid of a few old manuscripts written by the monks in the _scriptoria_ of their monasteries...