bibliotheca
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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
E bibliotheca Marquardii Gudii ad I. A. Fabricium, et, ex huius dono, ad Theodorum Ianssonium ab Almeloueen transmigrauere; qui illas suæ, Amstelodami 1709 8vo in lucem prolatæ; Apicii editioni inseri curauit.”
From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Vehling, Joseph Dommers
The Bibliotheca pontificia is introduced with the following heading: In intima et ultima secretiori bibliotheca ubi libri sunt pretiosiores.
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
Emptis quod libris tibi bibliotheca referta est, Doctum et grammaticum te, philomuse, putas.
From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard
