Adam de Botheby, Abbot of Peterborough, 98 Adam, Abbot of Evesham, 133 Adrian IV., Pope of Rome, Anecdote of, 176, 177 Elsinus, the Scribe, 157 Aïlward's Gift of Books to Evesham Monastery, 132 Alban's, Abbey of St.-See St. Alban's. Alewin, Verses by, 21, 121-Letters of, 66, 117, 122-His Bible, 119 -Love of Books, 116, 118, 123 Aldred, the Glossator, 64 Aldwine, Bishop of Lindesfarne, 67 Alfred the Great, 101 Angell de Pisa, a Franciscan Friar, 197 Angraville-see Richard de Bury Anselm, 52, 53 Antiquarii, 27 Arno, Archbishop of Salzburgh, Library of, 123, 124 Aristotle; Translation used by the Schoolmen, 196 Ascelin, Prior of Dover, 61 Augustine, St., his copy of the Bible and other books, 54 Baldwin, Abbot of, St. Edmund's Bury, 164 Bale on the destruction of books at the Reformation, 5 Basingstoke and his Greek books, 181 Bede the Venerable, 88, 107, 108, 114, 165 Bek, Anthony, Bishop of Durham, 70, 71 Benedict, Abbot of Peterborough, and his books, 95, 96 Benedict, Biscop of Wearmouth, and his book tours, 105, 106 Bible among the Monks in the middle ages, 54, 61, 68, 70, 88, 97, 109, 119, 130, 131, 133, 140, 142, 143, 158, 159, 161, 177 Bible, Monkish care in copying the, 23, 119 Bible, errors in printed copies, 23 Bible, Translations of, 48, 49, 104, 125, 201, note Bible, Illustrations of the scarcity of the, in the middle ages, 26, 27, Bible, Students in the middle ages, 24, 48, 51, 60, 70, 97, 109 Bilfrid the Illuminator, 64 Binding, costly, 36, 58, 63, 167, 168, 175, 177, 178, 182, 186 Blessing-Monkish blessing on Books, 17 Books sent to Oxford by the Monks of Durham, 71 Booksellers in the middle ages, 29, 30 Britone the Librarian-his catalogue of books in Glastonbury Abbey, 140 Bruges, John de, a Monk of Coventry, and his books, 129 Cædmon, the Saxon Poet, 125 Canterbury Monastery, &c., 41 Care in transcribing, 21, 46 Carelepho, Bishop of Durham, 68 Carmelite, 195, 201 Carpenter, Bishop, built and endowed a library in Exeter Church, 132 Catalogue of the books of Guy Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, 193, 194 Charlemagne's Bible, 119, his Library, 124 Chartye's, William, Catalogue of the Library of St. Mary's at Chiclely, Henry, Archbishop of Canterbury, 68 Cistercian Monks in England, 150 Classics among the Monks in the middle ages, 40, 57, 59, 68, 69, 79, 82, 88, 100, 128, 136, 140, 152, 153, 157, 158, 163 Classics, Monkish opinion of the, 15, 154 Classics found in Monasteries at the revival of learning, 39, 40 Cluniac Monks in England, 150 Cobham, Eleanor Duchess of Gloucester, 188, 189 Cobham, Bishop, founded the Library at Oxford, 131 Collier on the destruction of books, 5 Converting Miracles, 111 Coventry Church, 129 Coventry Miracles, 203 Croyland Monastery, Library of, 91 Cuthbert's Gospels, 63, 88 Danes in England, 64, 93, 94. Daniel, Bishop of Winchester, 113 De Bury, see Richard de Bury De Estria and his Catalogue of Canterbury Library, 55 Depying Priory-Catalogue of the Library of, 159 Dover Library, 62 Dunstan Saint, 43, 44 Eadburge-Abbess, transcribes books for Boniface, 113, 114 Eadfrid, Abbot of St. Albans, 169 INDEX. Eadmer, Abbot of St. Albans, 170, 171 Eardulphus, or Eurdulfus, Bishop of Lindesfarne, 65 Edmunds Bury, St., 164 Edwine the Scribe, 53 Effects of Gospel Reading, 160 Effects of the Reformation on Monkish learning, 5 Egbert, Archbishop of York, 114, 116, his Library, 121 Egebric, Abbot of Croyland, his gift of books to the Library, 92 Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, 188, 189 Ethelbert, 59 Etheldredæ founds the Monastery of Ely, 165 Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester-his love of Architecture, 156, 166 his fine Benedictional, 166 Ely Monastery, 165, 166. Erventus the Illuminator, 99 Esseburn Henry, 201 Extracts from the Account Books of, 167 Evesham Monastery, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138 Fathers, Veneration for the, 25 Frederic, Abbot of St. Albans, 172 Franciscan Library at Oxford, 199 Friars, Mendicant, 78, 79, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202 Geoffry de Gorham, Abbot of St. Albans, 173, 174 Gerbert, extract from a letter of, 30 Gift of books to Richard de Bury by the Monks of St. Albans, 82 Glastonbury Abbey, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144 Gloucester Abbey, 147 Godeman Abbot of Gloucester, 148 Godemann the Scribe, 156, 157 Godfrey, Abbot of Peterborough, 98, 99 Godinge the Librarian to Exeter Church, 130 Godiva, Lady, and her good deeds, 130, 131 Gospels, notices of among the Monks in the Middle Ages, 58, 61, 62, 63, 88, 94, 95, 113, 133, 146, 150, 166, 167, note, 173, 178 Graystane, Robert de, 71 Grostest Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, 198, 199 Gundulph, Bishop of Rochester, 59 Guthlac, St., of Croyland, 91 Guy, Earl of Warwick, his gift of books to Bordesley Abbey, 193, 194 Hebrew Manuscripts among the Monks, 162, 199 Henry the Second of England, 151, 154 Henry de Estria and his Catalogue of Canterbury Library, 55 Hilda, 124 Holdernesse, Abbot of Peterbourgh, 98 216 Hoton, Prior of Durham, 71 INDEX. Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, 54 Hunting practised by the Monks and Churchmen, 152 Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 187. His domestic troubles, 188, 189. His death, 190. Lydgate's Verses upon, 190, 191. Books to Oxford, 192, 193 John de Bruges of Coventry Church, 129 John Prior of Evesham, 135, 136, 137 His Gift of John of Taunton, a Monk of Glastonbury, his Catalogue of Books, 141 Kernulfus, Abbot of Peterborough, 95 Kinfernus, Archbishop of York, gift of the Gospels to Peterburgh Mo- Kildwardly, Archbishop of Canterbury, 54 Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, 50 Langley, Thomas, 89 Laws of the Universities over booksellers, 32, 33, 34. Lending books, system of among the Monks, 11, 13; by the book- Leofin, Abbot of Ely, 166 Leofric, Abbot of St. Albans, 169 Leofric, Bishop of Exeter, 148; his Private Library, 149 Leofricke, Earl of Mercia, 130 Leofricus, Abbot of Peterborough, 95 Leicester, Abbey of St. Mary de la Pre, at, 100, 101 Libraries in the Middle Ages; see Catalogues Libraries, how supported, 16, 54, 135 Librarii, or booksellers, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 Lindesfarne, 63 Livy, the lost decades of, 145 Lul. Majestro, 113 Lulla, Bishop of Coena, 115 Lydgate's Verses on Baldwin, Abbot of St. Edmunds Bury, 164; on Duke Humphrey, 190, 191 Malmsbury Monastery, 145 Malmsbury, William of, 145, 146, 147 Mannius, Abbot of Evesham, his skill in illuminating, 132 Manuscripts, Ancient, described, 53, 126 Manuscripts, Collections of, 3 Marleberg, Thomas, of, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137 Medeshamstede, 94 Mendicant Friars, 78, 79, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202 INDEX. 217 Milton and Cædmon compared, 127 Monachism, 18, 23, 208, 209 Monastic training, 179 Monks, the preservers of books, 18 Nicholas, of St. Alban's, 181, 198 Nicholas Hereford, of Evesham, 137, 138 Norman Conquest. Effect of the, 50) Northone, Abbot of St. Alban's, 181 Nothelm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 43, 114 Offa, King, 3, 130, 168. Alcwin's Letter to, 118 Osbern, of Shepey, 62 Oswald, Bishop of Worcester, 16, 130 Paul or Paulinus, of St. Alban's, 52, 172 Peter of Blois, Archdeacon of London, 30, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155 Peterborough Monastery, 93. Library, 99, 100 Petrarch, 73, 74 Philobiblon, by Richard de Bury, 76 Prior John, of Evesham, 135 Puritans destroy the Library in Worcester Church, 132 Purple Manuscripts, 36 Pusar, Hugh de, Bishop of Durham, 70 Radolphus, Bishop of Rochester, 61 Ralph de Gubium, Abbot of St. Alban's, 174, 175 Ramsey Abbey, 161. Hebrew MSS. at Ramsey, 162. Classics, 163 Reading Abbey. Library of, 158 Regnald, of Evesham, 133 Reginald, Archdeacon of Salisbury, reproved for his love of fal- Rhypum Monastery; gift of books to, 109 Richard de Albini, 173 Richard de Bury, 11, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, Richard, of London, 98 Richard de Stowe, 148 Richard Wallingford, Abbot of St. Alban's, 82 Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury, 144, 145 Ridiculous signs for books; see signs Rieval Monastery-Library of, 128, 129 Robert de Gorham, Abbot of St. Alban's, 175 Robet, of Lyndeshye, 97 Robert, of Sutton, 98 |