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19415	Clark, John Willis	Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894			.txt	text/plain	9739	479	73	century, may be taken as a fairly accurate picture of the book-presses of I now pass to the treatment of books in the libraries of the monastic them receive a book apiece from the library, and read it from the Benedictine tree--books were multiplied, and a library came into of the eleventh century Benedictine Houses possessed two sets of books: No example of an English monastic book-press has survived, so far as I that the books were kept in a small room, on shelves there called observer noted "books chained on wooden desks, which brethren can come and read when they please." The library was for serious study, the cloister desk could not be dispensed with so long as books were chained, but one or bookcases in the south room of the University Library, Cambridge, put up libraries, and the second is the usual word for a reading-desk.	./cache/19415.txt	./txt/19415.txt