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.
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 John Willis Clark
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 John Willis Clark
In the catalogue dated 1512 it is called Intima et ultima secretior bibliotheca, and seems to have contained the most valued treasures.
From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark
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 William Dunn Macray
His deputy called him diabolus bibliothecae, “the devil of the library”; others referred to him simply as Old Nick.
From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017
