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Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods

by John Willis Clark

The Rede Lecture given at Cambridge in 1894, on how libraries were built, furnished and run from the monasteries to the Renaissance. Clark was the university’s Registrary and had studied many of the rooms himself. He is very good on shelves.

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Reading time

About 40 minutes

Where to find it

On the Archive shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #19415. In the public domain in the United States.