Contrast between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Suppression of
the Monasteries. Commissioners of Edward VI. Subsequent changes in
library fittings. S. John's College, and University Library, Cambridge.
Queen's College, Oxford. Libraries attached to churches and schools.
Chaining in recent times. Chains taken off 245

CHAPTER VIII.

The wall-system. This began on the Continent. Library of the Escorial.
Ambrosian Library at Milan. Library of Cardinal Mazarin. Bodleian
Library at Oxford. Works and influence of Wren. French conventual
libraries of the seventeenth century 267

CHAPTER IX.

Private libraries. Abbat Simon and his book-chest. Library of Charles V.
of France. Illustrations of this library from illuminated manuscripts.
Book-lectern used in private houses. Book-desks revolving round a
central screw. Desks attached to chairs. Wall-cupboards. A scholar's
room in the fifteenth century. Study of the Duke of Urbino. Library
of Margaret of Austria. Library of Montaigne. Conclusion 291

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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1. Plan of the Record-Rooms in the Palace of Assur-bani-pal, King of
Nineveh 2

2. Plan of the temple and precinct of Athena, Pergamon; with that of the
Library and adjacent buildings 9

3. Plan of the Porticus Octaviae, Rome. From _Formae Urbis Romae
Antiguae_, Berlin, 1896 13

4. Plan of the Forum of Trajan; after Nibby. From Middleton's
_Remains of Ancient Rome_ 15

5. Plan of the Stoa of Hadrian, at Athens. From Miss Harrison's
_Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens_ 17

6. Elevation of a single compartment of the wall of the Library
discovered in Rome, 1883. From notes and measurements made by
Signor Lanciani and Prof. Middleton 23

7. Plan of the Record-House of Vespasian, with the adjoining
structures. From Middleton's _Remains of Ancient Rome_ 26

8. Part of the internal wall of the Record-House of Vespasian. Reduced
from a sketch taken in the 16th century by Pirro Ligorio. From