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C. Woudanus, dated 1610. (Lent by the Syndics ofthe University Press. )] An arrangement analogous to this was adopted at Citeaux, as we may gatherfrom the catalogue, drawn up in 1480. I will not trouble you withdetails, but merely say that there was evidently a shelf below the desk aswell as one above it. The cases therefore resembled those at Leiden, withthis difference; and they were also probably of such a height that areader could conveniently sit at them. On the continent, where elaborate ...bindings came early into fashion, sometimes protected by equally elaborate bosses at their corners, it wouldhave been impossible to arrange the volumes as we did side by side on theshelves. It therefore became the fashion to place a shelf below the desk, and to lay the books upon it on their sides. The earliest library fittedin this manner that I have been able to discover is at Cesena in NorthItaly. It was built in 1452, by Domenico Malatesta Novello, for theconvent of S. Francesco. It is possible, therefore, that the parent houseof S.
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