_Note._--This list aims (i) to bring together in brief form a number of records which are better removed from the main text of this book, and (ii) to present in chronological order facts carefully selected to show the variety of medieval libraries, in size and character.
----------+-------------------------------------------+-------------------- DATE | DESCRIPTION | SOURCE ----------+-------------------------------------------+-------------------- 778 | Alcuin’s library at York. Aristotle, | Alcuin, _De Pont. | Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Cicero, | Eccle. Ebor._, | Aldhelm, Bede, etc. | 1535-61; Becker, | | 2. 10 c. | Books given to Peterborough by | Dugdale, i. 382. | Ethelwold. Bede _in Marcum_, _Liber | | Miraculorum_, _Expositio Hebraeorum | | nominum_, _De Literis Graecorum_, etc. | | About 20. | 10 c. | King Athelstan gave some nine books to | _B. M. Cott._, A 1. | S. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury: | viii. fo. 56^{ b}; | Persius, Isidore, Bede (?), etc. | James, lxix. _c._ 1034 | “Many” books on theology and grammar | _Chron. Abb. de E._ | given to Evesham Abbey by Bp. | (Rolls S.), 83. | Aelfward. | 1045 | Two books bequeathed to Glastonbury | Wm. of Malm., _De | by Bp. Brithwold. | Ant. Glaston._, | | Wharton, _Angl. | | Sacra_ (1691), i. | | 578-83. _c._ 1060 | At St. Peter’s Exeter books given by | Dugdale, ii. 527. | Bp. Leofric; Exeter Book, Leofric | | Missal, etc. | 1077-93 | Church books given to S. Albans by | _Gesta ... S. | Abbot Paul. | Albani_, i. 58. 1078-99 | Bp. Osmund collected and wrote books | W. of Malm., _Gesta | for Old Sarum Church. | Pont._, 183. _c._ 1080 | Abbot Walter made many books for | _Chron. Abb. de E._ | Evesham. | (Rolls S.), 97. 1095 | Bp. William de Carilef gave about 52 | _Surtees Soc._, vii. | books to Durham [not Lindisfarne, as | 117-8; Becker, 172. | in Becker]. | 12 c. | Nearly 370 pieces at Durham Priory: | _Surtees Soc._, vii. | Quintilian, Plato’s _Timaeus_, | 1-10. | Sallust, Cicero (_de Legibus_, _de | | Amic._, _de Senectute_), Terence, | | Virgil, Ovid (_Epp._, _Tristia_, _Ars | | amandi_, _Remedia amoris de Fastis_), | | Lucan, Juvenal; grammar, rhetoric, | | arithmetic, geometry, medicine; some | | English books. | 12 c. | At Burton-on-Trent Abbey, after 1175, | B. M. Add. MS. 23944, | there were 78 vols. Incl. Augustine, | fo. 157; | Gregory, Bede, Anselm, etc. | _Zentralblatt_, | | ix. 201-3. 12 c. | Catalogue of 68 pieces belonging | MS. Bodley, 163, f. | probably to one of the great | 261; Becker, 216. | Southern abbeys. | 1104 | Abbot Peter gave many books to | _Hist. et cart. mon. | Gloucester Abbey. | Glouc._, i. xxiv. 1119-46 | Abbot Geoffrey gave church books to S. | _Gesta ... S. Alb._, | Albans. | i. 94. 1126-71 | At Glastonbury Abbot Henry had 54 | Adam de Domerham, | books transcribed, incl. Pliny’s | _Hist._, ed. Hearne | _Nat. Hist._, Suetonius _De Vita | (1727), ii. 317-18; | Caesarum_, _Gesta Britonum_, _Gesta_ | Hearne, _Hist. and_ | _Anglorum_. | _Ant. of G._ (1722) | | 141-3. 1130 | Abbot Reginald acquired for church of | _Chron. Abb. de E._ | Evesham Ab. books and ornaments. | 99. 1150 | Hugh of Leicester gave books to Lincoln | _Girald. Cambrensis_ | Cath. 42 vols. and map of world in | (Rolls Ser.), vii. | library now; 31 added soon after. | 165. | Some parts of Bible given by Bp. | | Alexander; 9 books given by Bp. | | Chesney. Library included Augustine, | | Gregory, Bede, Ambrose, Jerome, | | Virgil, Vegetius (_de re Militari_). | _c._ 1170 | Over 223 volumes in Christ Church, | James, 7. | Canterbury: catalogue, which is but a | | fragment, contains books of grammar, | | rhetoric, music, arithmetic, poetry, | | logic, astronomy, geometry--Donatus | | in Greek, Donatus in English, | | Cicero’s Rhetoric, _de Senectute_, | | _de Amicitia_ (2), Plato’s _Timaeus_, | | Terence (5 volumes), Sallust (8 | | volumes), Virgil (8 volumes), Horace | | (8), Lucan (5), Statius (6), Juvenal | | (4) Persius (9), Cato (2), Ovid (5). | _c._ 1177 | Nearly 80 books in Peterboro’ | _Hist. Angl. | Abbey--Seneca, Terence, Martial. | Script. Varii_ | | [Sparke], 98-9; | | Merryweather, | | 96-97; Becker, | | 238. _c._ 1180 | 74 pieces in Whitby Abbey--42 theology, | Becker, 226. | 15 history: Cicero (_de Amicitia_, | | _de Senectute_), Homer, Juvenal, | | Plato, Sedulius, Statius, Virgil? | | (_Bucolica_), Persius, etc. | 1184 | Bp. Bartholomew left books to church at | _B.M. Cotton Roll._ | Crediton and to another church. | II., 11 (at end). 12 or 13 c.| At Bury S. Edmunds Abbey there was | James^{ 1}, 23. | a fair library at this period; | | including average number of classics. | 13 c. | Before this Reading Abbey had 228 | _E. H. R._ (1888), | volumes--Seneca, Aristotle, Virgil, | 117-23. | Juvenal; _Gesta R.