Part the first. History of libraries

Trübner & Company, 1859 - Libraries

3 THE BOROUGH LIBRARY OF SALFORD	3

The early History of Libraries full of doubt and conjecture	8

Clay Libraries of Assyria	14

The Library of Pergamus	25

PASSAGES FROM GREEK WRITERS RELATING TO ANCIENT LIBRARIES	32

Athenæus	38

Pliny the Elder	45

Flavius Vopiscus	51

Frederick Duke of Urbino	404

The Duke of Aumales account of some small French Collections	410

CHAPTER II	451

The Thomason Collection of Tracts	456

CHAPTER III	475

Desiderata 582	480

Defective condition of the Library at this period	481

The Hebrew Library of H J Michael	489

CHAPTER V	57

The Herculaneum excavations	63

Sir Humphrey Davys experiments	71

Early Researches for MSS	74

CHAPTER I	83

The Monasteries of the Nitrian Desert	89

Mr Curzons Visits to the Coptic Monks	94

And of the Augustinians	95

And that of St Augustine	102

Literary treasures amassed at Whitby	109

Abbot Benedicts transcriptions for Peterborough	116

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER II	122

CHAPTER III	236

The Corvey Tacitus	248

Transfer of the remains of the Corvey Collection to Marburg	250

The Reichenau Library	259

Labours and Sorrows of Abbot Tritheim at Sponheim	265

Boccaccios Visit to Monte Cassino	271

Library at Pomposia in the Eleventh Century	277

The taxtariff of Abbot Macarius	283

The founder of Clugni	291

Catalogue of the Library of St Riquier in the Ninth Century	297

CHAPTER V	303

The Franciscan Library at Annaberg	310

The Rules for delivery and return of books	316

Loans to Strangers	318

The Rules of the Scriptoria	325

Catalogue of the Rievaux Library	334

CHAPTER VII	342

Remoteness of the Visitatorial power one of the causes of Monastic	348

Personal character of the Commissioners	355

John Lelands mission	362

The Library of Tonantius Ferreolus at his Castle of Prusiana	368

His gifts to Oxford	382

That of Charles V of France and its subsequent dispersion	392

Recent Researches of the Duke of Northumberland	496

Their Results in the Syriac MSS added to the Museum in 1841	503

CHAPTER V	513

Alienation of Public Records and State Papers	520

The MSS from the Nitrian Monasteries	527

List of the Principal Librarians	534

Benefactions of Thomas Lord Fairfax	541

CHAPTER VII	549

HEARNES ACCOUNT OF HIS DISMISSAL FROM THE UNDER LIBRARIANSHIP	575

The Ashmolean Library	582

Bequests of the Earl of Orrery and of Archbishop Wake to Christ	588

Temporary acquisition of the Lambeth Library	594

Results of the Copyright Tax	600

Edward Capell and his Shakesperiana	607

Pepys his Character and his Collections	614

CHAPTER XI	623

3	644

THE HALLIWELL COLLECTION OF BROADSIDES	672

CHAPTER XII	680

Beeverells account of Westminster Library in 1707	686

Bishop Kennets foundation at Peterborough	692

Worcester and its losses in the Civil Wars	698

The venerable Collection at Exeter	704

The noble Library at Durham	710

CHAPTER XIII	714

Biblical and Liturgical MSS	721

The earliest Libraries of Christendom Church Libraries 732	753

Church Libraries founded by Humphrey Chetham in Lancashire	759

The Library at Whitchurch Hants	765

CHAPTER XVII	772

Objections and Limitations	778

Parliamentary Logic	785

CHAPTER XVIII	793

PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACT ENGLAND 18 19 Vict c	814

July 1854	834

Title	Part the first. History of libraries Volume 1 of Memoirs of Libraries: Including a Handbook of Library Economy, Edward Edwards
Author	Edward Edwards
Publisher	Trübner & Company, 1859
Original from	the New York Public Library
Digitized	7 Jan 2009

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