Bibliomania in the Middle Ages: Or, Sketches of Bookworms, Collectors, Bible Students, Scribes, and Illuminators, from the Anglo Saxon and Norman Periods, to the Introduction of Printing Into England ; with Anecdotes, Illustrating the History of the Monastic Libraries of Great Britain in the Olden Time |
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