bibliotheca

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—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.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 108, November 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

In the same essay he says that Mabillon called Magliabechi "Museum inambulans, et viva qu�dam bibliotheca."

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 108, November 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Iam enim inter balnearia et thermas bibliotheca quoque ut necessarium domus ornamentum expolitur.

From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis

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

Emptis quod libris tibi bibliotheca referta est,   Doctum et grammaticum te, philomuse, putas.

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard