a. 2, tercius per A. a. 3, et
consequenter.

Secunde partis primus liber signatur per A. b. 1,
secundus per A. b. 2; et de consequentibus similis est
ordinatio.

Tercie partis primus liber signatur per A. c. 1,
secundus per A. c. 2; et consequenter.

Quarte partis primus liber signatur per A. d. 1,
secundus per A. d. 2; et consequenter.

[In this way five "analogia" are enumerated.]

Et eadem est disciplina et ordinacio de ceteris
analogiis prout habetur in novissimo quaternione eiusdem
tabule, immo et in fronte cuiuslibet analogii in tabella
eidem appendente.

Hanc tabulam seu repertorium scripsit quondam frater
Petrus mauray de Arecis oriundus. Vivus vel defunctus
requiescat in bona semper pace. Amen.

The most important passage in the above note may be thus translated:

Read

For the right understanding of the present table or
method of finding books (_tabule seu repertorii_), you
must know that on the north side are ranged those books
whereof the capital letters are black; on the south side
those whereof the capital letters are red. All are set
down in alphabetical order.

On each side the first desk (_analogium_) is marked by
the letter A; the second by the letter B; [and so
forth].

Each desk has four divisions, the first of which is
marked by the letter _a_, the second by the letter _b_,
the third by the letter _c_, the fourth by the letter
_d_. The first book on the first shelf of the first desk
is marked A. a. i; the second A. a. ii; [and so forth].

The catalogue as well as the description makes it perfectly clear that
each desk, that is to say, each bookcase, had four shelves; and further,
as the authors of the _Voyage Litteraire_ (1708) mention chains[355], it
may be concluded that there were desks, and seats for readers, between
each pair of bookcases. If we place two shelves on each side of the case
we get a piece of furniture precisely similar to that in use at
Canterbury.

FOOTNOTES:

[332] Macray, _Annals of the Bodleian Library_, p. 7. The words used are:
Jam enim si quis, ut fit, uni libro inhaereat, aliis studere volentibus ad
tres vel quatuor pro vicinitate colligationis praecludit accessum.

[333] Hearne's _Glastonbury_, ed. 1722, p. 286.

[334] _Fasti Herefordenses_, by Rev. F. T. Havergal. 4^o, 1869, p. 181. A
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