Medieval Libraries and Manuscripts

When the necessity for still further space for books became imperative, the seat was given up, or was dropped to the height of a step, as in the bookcases in the south room of the University[Pg 51] Library, Cambridge, put up soon after 1649. The carved wing, however, which had masked the ends of it, was retained as an ornament, both there and in the old library at Pembroke College, Cambridge, furnished soon after 1690.

• Introduction: The Medieval Library
  
  
• Book Presses
  
  
• Private Libraries in the Middle Ages
  
  
• The Library at the Sorbonne
  
  
• Book Carrels
  
  
• Monastary Libraries
  

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