bibliotheca

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No. 76 of Digby's MSS. was bought by Dr. John Dee, at London, May 18, 1556, 'ex bibliotheca Joh.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn

The following curious rule, copied, as it would appear, in the Library itself, by Claude Bellièvre of Lyons, who visited Rome about 1513, shews that order was strictly enforced: Nonnulla quæ collegi in bibliotheca Vaticani.

From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis

"Effulsit eo majistro, obedientia coactu, philosophicarum ac divinarum litterarum bibliotheca, etc."

From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Merryweather, Frederick Somner

Aiming at historical fulness and fidelity, we turned to our national bibliotheca at the British Museum, where we fished out of the vasty deep of treasures a MS. without date or name.

From Moon Lore by Harley, Timothy

For the canonical aspect, Ferraris, Prompta bibliotheca, s.v.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various