bibliotheca

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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

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

"Effulsit eo majistro, obedientia coactu, philosophicarum ac divinarum litterarum bibliotheca, etc."

From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Merryweather, Frederick Somner

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

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 Clark, John Willis