.: builds staircase in Rouen Cathedral, 129

Porticus Octaviae, 12-14

Portraits of departed authors used to decorate libraries:
at Pergamon, 11;
by C. Asinius Pollio, 12;
by Augustus, 14;
in private libraries, 35;
inscriptions accompanying them, _ibid._;
described by Eucherius, Bp of Lyons, in a private library, 43;
in library designed by pope Agapetus, 44

Precentor: called also _armarius_ and entrusted with care of books by
Cluniacs, 67;
Benedictines, 68;
Augustinians, 71;
Premonstratensians, 72;
supervises use of press at S. Augustine's, Canterbury, 99

Premonstratensians: rules for books among, 72

_Procurator bibliothecarum_: officer appointed by Augustus, 18

Protection of MSS.: rule for holding a MS., 76;
hands to be clean, _ibid._;
handkerchiefs to be wrapped round, _ibid._;
entreaties to use carefully, _ibid._;
curses on those who damage or steal, 77

Queens' Coll., Camb.: number of books in library 1472, 145;
equidistant windows of library, 148;
library selected as type, 151;
analysis of catalogue dated 1472, 167

Queen's Coll., Oxf.: library built by Hawkesmoore, 255

Ramsey Abbey, Hunts: bad weather in cloister at, 80

Remi, S., at Rheims: library belonging to, 286

Reserved library: in collegiate libraries, 145;
at Assisi, 207;
at Vatican, 211

Rheims: library of S. Remi, 286; of the Jesuits, 287

Riquier (S.): library, 102

Rivington: school library, 262;
Bp Pilkington's statute for, _ibid._

Roche, Cistercian Abbey: book-room, 86

_roe_, a wheel = a book-desk, 294;
explained, 295;
illustrated, 304-308

Rolls: dimensions, use, etc., 27;
fastened to stick, 28;
this decorated with knobs (_cornua_), _ibid._;
edges (_frontes_) of roll cut, _ibid._;
ticket (_index_) appended, 29;
closed with straps (_lora_), _ibid._;
wrapped in covers, _ibid._;
carried in a _capsa_ or _scrinium_, 30;
receptacles for, 30-34;
desk for reading, 36;
_armarium_ to contain, 37

Rome: _see_ Libraries, Roman

Rouen: Cathedral library, 128-130

Salisbury: Cathedral library, 121

Sarcophagus:
in Mus. Naz., Rome, with shoemaker at work in front of a press, 38;
in Villa Balestra, with physician reading, _ibid._

_scrinium_: box for carrying rolls, 30

Scriptorium: endowment, at Ely, 79;
at S. Al