_Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma_ 26

9. A reader with a roll: from a fresco at Pompeii 28

10. Book-box or capsa 30

11. A Roman taking down a roll from its place in a Library 35

12. Desk to support a roll while it is being read 36

13. A Roman reading a roll in front of a press (_armarium_).
From a photograph of a sarcophagus in the garden of the Villa
Balestra, Rome _To face_ 38

14. Press containing the four Gospels. From a mosaic above the tomb of
the Empress Galla Placidia at Ravenna 39

15. Ezra writing the Law. Frontispiece to the _Codex Amiatinus_.
In the background is a press with open doors. The picture was
probably drawn in the middle of the sixth century A.D.
_Frontispiece_

16. Great Hall of the Vatican Library, looking west
_To face_ 47

17. A single press in the Vatican Library, open. From a photograph
_To face_ 48

18. Rough ground-plan of the Great Hall of the Vatican Library,
to illustrate the account of the decoration _To face_ 60

19. Press in the cloister at the Cistercian Abbey of Fossa Nuova 83

20. Ground-plan and elevation of the book-recesses in the cloister of
Worcester Cathedral 84

21. Ground-plan of part of the Abbey of Fossa Nuova. To shew the
book-room and book-press, and their relations to adjoining
structures: partly from Enlart's _Origines Francaises de
l'Architecture Gothique en Italie_, partly from my own
measurements 85

22. Ground-plan of part of Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire 86

23. Ground-plan of part of Furness Abbey. From Mr W. H. St J. Hope's
plan 88

24. Arches in south wall of Church at Beaulieu Abbey, Hampshire, once
possibly used as book-presses _To face_ 89

25. The cloister, Westminster Abbey. From Mr Micklethwaite's plan of
the