bibliotheca
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The account of the Inner Library begins as follows: In secretiori bibliotheca In iijo. scanno supra.
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
—Sir J. Stephen, in his essay on The French Benedictines, gives an anagram of Father Finavdis of the Latinized name of that great bibliophagist Magliabechi:—Antonius Magliabechius—Is unus bibliotheca magna.
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
This national bibliotheca sacra in which the writings of the prophets were deposited as soon as they were composed is the product of pure fiction.
From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Gladden, Washington
In the same essay he says that Mabillon called Magliabechi "Museum inambulans, et viva qu�dam bibliotheca."
