Trinity Hall, Camb.: library statute, 136;
library described, 168

Troyes: library in Cathedral, 126

Turton: library, 259

Udine, Giovanni da: supplies stained glass to Medicean Library, 235

Ulpian, jurist: decisions respecting libraries and their furniture, 37

Ulpian library, at Rome: _see_ Trajan

_umbilicus_ = stick to which roll was fastened, 28

Universities: visited by Commissioners of Edward VI., 247

University Coll., Oxf.: library statute, 133

University Library, Camb.: subjects of books catalogued 1424, 144;
ditto 1473, 145;
bookcases supplied to, 1731-4, 285

Urbino: account of library, 233;
private study of Duke, 314

Varro, M. Terentius:
employed by C. Julius Caesar to collect books for his intended
library, 12;
his bust admitted into Pollio's library, _ibid._

Vatican Library of Sixtus IV.: description of, 208-32;
appointment of Platina as librarian, 208;
selection of site, 209;
fourfold division, 211;
purchase of materials, _ibid._;
engagement of artists, _ibid._;
door of entrance made, 212;
Latin Library described, _ibid._;
its decoration, 213;
Greek Library described, _ibid._;
its decoration, 215;
Bibliotheca secreta described, _ibid._;
Bibliotheca pontificia, _ibid._;
glazing of the windows, 216;
rooms for librarians, _ibid._;
bookcases for Latin library ordered, 217;
for _Bibliotheca secreta_, _ibid._;
catalogue-frames and coffers ordered, 218;
cases for _Bibliotheca pontificia_ ordered, _ibid._;
chains bought, 219;
information derived from catalogues, 220-4;
contemporary fresco representing library, 225;
arrangement of cases in the four rooms, 226-9;
globes and brazier, 229;
rule for good behaviour in, 1513, _ibid._;
visit of Montaigne, 230;
loans from, 230-1;
staff of library, 231;
maintenance of, 232

Vatican Library of Sixtus V.: type of an ancient Roman library, 47;
summary account of decoration, 48;
detailed do., 49-60

Versailles: libraries of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, 287

Verses: by Martial, to be placed under his own portrait, 35;
by Isidore of Seville, for the presses in his library, 45

Vespasian: his library in Rome _in templo Paris_, 15;
statement of Aulus Gellius respecting, 19;
his record-office, now church of SS. Cosma e Damiano, 25