bibliotheca
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The Germans have a tolerable lending library; and the public bibliotheca in the Town House, near the Jesuit church, is rich in old volumes, mostly collected from religious houses.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Apud desidiosissimos ergo videbis quicquid orationum historiarumque est, tecto tenus exstructa loculamenta; jam enim inter balnearia et thermas bibliotheca quoque ut necessarium domus ornamentum expolitur.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill
In the same essay he says that Mabillon called Magliabechi "Museum inambulans, et viva qu�dam bibliotheca."
Emptis quod libris tibi bibliotheca referta est, Doctum et grammaticum te, philomuse, putas.
From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard
"Effulsit eo majistro, obedientia coactu, philosophicarum ac divinarum litterarum bibliotheca, etc."
From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Merryweather, Frederick Somner