organisation of library in cloister, _ibid._

Augustinians: rules for books in force among, 71

Augustus: builds libraries in Rome, 12;
porticus Octaviae, _ibid._;
temple and area of Apollo Palatinus, 14;
their organisation, 18

Autun, College d', Paris: library at, 166

Bale, John, laments loss of monastic libraries, 246

Bamberg: chained book from monastery, 159

_banca_ or _bancus_: meaning discussed, 242

Bancroft, Abp, his library brought to Cambridge, 253

Barber Surgeons, Lond.: books in their library chained 1639, 265

Barberini: library in their palace at Rome, 316

Bateman, Will., Bp of Norwich: his library statute for Trinity Hall, 136;
division of his library, 144

Bayeux, Cathedral: press called _Le Chartrier_ described and figured, 94;
library at, 125

Beaulieu, Cistercian Abbey: book-room, 86;
book-recesses in wall of cloister, 89

Benedict (S.): passage in his Rule respecting study, 66

Benedictines:
decrees given to English monks of the Order by Abp Lanfranc, 67;
customs in force at S. Benoit-sur-Loire, 68, _note_;
at Abingdon, Berks, _ibid._;
at Evesham, Worcestershire, 69;
their books bestowed in wooden presses, 84;
arrangement adopted at Durham, 90

Benoit (S.)-sur-Loire: customs quoted, 68, _note_;
endowment of library, 79

Bicester: school library, 262

Bobbio: library, 102

Bodleian Library, Oxf.: description, as fitted up by Sir T. Bodley, 185;
chains taken off 1757, 266;
inconvenience of chaining, 266;
new bookcases on wall-system, 275

Boethius: decoration of his library, 41;
view of a library in MS. of his _Cons. of Phil._, 163, 164

Bolton, Lanc.: school, 264

Book-room: in Cistercian Houses, 84-89;
at Fossa Nuova, 83

Boys, John: his library, 317

Brandolini, A.: epigram on library of Sixtus IV., 211

Brasenose Coll., Oxf.: library statute, 137;
chains taken off 1780, 266

_breve_ or _brevis_ = a book-ticket: in Cluniac Customs, 67;
in Lanfranc's decrees for Benedictines, 68

Brewster, Will.: bequeathes books to All Saints' Ch., Hereford, 262

Budge, Dr Wallis: note on Mesopotamian discoveries, 4

Bury, Lanc.: library in school, 263

Bury S. Edmunds: use of carrells, 98;
cloister glazed with stained glass, 100;
library built 1429-45, 108

Busts in Roman libraries: _see_ Portraits

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