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INTRODUCTION
of glossed Books of the Bible ; all but two of Radulphus’s gift
are also glossed Books. There is but one volume of secular learning,
the Rhetoric of Cocero (P.l. iv.). Three or four have to do with
Church law. There are two Homiliaries and a Passional (marked
de armariolo ; it was kept probably in the cloister). The rest we
may say are Patristic.
Going to the other end of the story, we take stock of Owen
Lloyd’s gift. He was a doctor of laws, and this accounts for the
presence of ten of his books ; a Churchman, and this aspect is
represented by eight or nine. Six others may pass as general
literature.
This suggests a. glance at the Law books, Canon and Civil,
including Lloyd’s. There seem to be 41 of these, 32 of Canon, 9 of
Civil Law. Among them are the gifts of Bishop Trefnant (?),
of Rudhale, Grene, and Mayew.
Nine other books that have donors names (Bayly, Bosom,
Tawre, Russell (?) Feld) are theological in content. It is worth
while to note also the few volumes of what can be called general
secular literature, not all of which are certainly Cathedral books.
I reckon these : 0.1. ix, 3. v., 5. xv, 7. viii, P.l. iv, 2. vii, 3. vi,
4. iv, 5. v, vii, xi. They include a book or two on Rhetoric, two
manuals of general knowledge (Isidore and Bartholomseus) and
two copies of a book on farming. Dictionaries too are among them,
but oddly enough there is not a grammar of any kind. The only
thing I have seen which suggests the existence of a teaching estab-
lishment is a note in one of Archdeacon Radulphus’s books (0.5. ix)
Mag. W. de Burga geometricam, Mag. radulvus de Wgetot musicam,
and even this cannot be said to be very explicit in its application
to Hereford.
Next, the contingent of books from other known places. The
Abbey of Cirencester is the most important contributor, with either
16 or 19 volumes to its credit, mostly of the twelfth century. Some
of them contain interesting statements of the times and persons
when and by whom they were written. For more Cirencester books
we have to go to Jesus College, Oxford, which has eight at least.
From the Franciscans of Hereford come probably 13, certainly
10 books. On their library I have written in Collectanea Franciscana
III, but I missed two of the Hereford Volumes in my then incomplete
survey.
Other Friars’ houses which are represented here by a volume
apiece are the Dominicans of Hereford and of Ilchester and the
Franciscans of Gloucester and of Oxford.
INTRODUCTION
of glossed Books of the Bible ; all but two of Radulphus’s gift
are also glossed Books. There is but one volume of secular learning,
the Rhetoric of Cocero (P.l. iv.). Three or four have to do with
Church law. There are two Homiliaries and a Passional (marked
de armariolo ; it was kept probably in the cloister). The rest we
may say are Patristic.
Going to the other end of the story, we take stock of Owen
Lloyd’s gift. He was a doctor of laws, and this accounts for the
presence of ten of his books ; a Churchman, and this aspect is
represented by eight or nine. Six others may pass as general
literature.
This suggests a. glance at the Law books, Canon and Civil,
including Lloyd’s. There seem to be 41 of these, 32 of Canon, 9 of
Civil Law. Among them are the gifts of Bishop Trefnant (?),
of Rudhale, Grene, and Mayew.
Nine other books that have donors names (Bayly, Bosom,
Tawre, Russell (?) Feld) are theological in content. It is worth
while to note also the few volumes of what can be called general
secular literature, not all of which are certainly Cathedral books.
I reckon these : 0.1. ix, 3. v., 5. xv, 7. viii, P.l. iv, 2. vii, 3. vi,
4. iv, 5. v, vii, xi. They include a book or two on Rhetoric, two
manuals of general knowledge (Isidore and Bartholomseus) and
two copies of a book on farming. Dictionaries too are among them,
but oddly enough there is not a grammar of any kind. The only
thing I have seen which suggests the existence of a teaching estab-
lishment is a note in one of Archdeacon Radulphus’s books (0.5. ix)
Mag. W. de Burga geometricam, Mag. radulvus de Wgetot musicam,
and even this cannot be said to be very explicit in its application
to Hereford.
Next, the contingent of books from other known places. The
Abbey of Cirencester is the most important contributor, with either
16 or 19 volumes to its credit, mostly of the twelfth century. Some
of them contain interesting statements of the times and persons
when and by whom they were written. For more Cirencester books
we have to go to Jesus College, Oxford, which has eight at least.
From the Franciscans of Hereford come probably 13, certainly
10 books. On their library I have written in Collectanea Franciscana
III, but I missed two of the Hereford Volumes in my then incomplete
survey.
Other Friars’ houses which are represented here by a volume
apiece are the Dominicans of Hereford and of Ilchester and the
Franciscans of Gloucester and of Oxford.