BIBLIOMANIA

in

THE MIDDLE AGES

by

F. SOMNER MERRYWEATHER

With an Introduction by

CHARLES ORR

Librarian of Case Library

NEW YORK

MEYER BROTHERS & COMPANY

1900

Copyright, 1900

By Meyer Bros. & Co.

Louis Weiss & Co.

Printers....

118 Fulton Street

... New York

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages

or

SKETCHES OF BOOKWORMS, COLLECTORS, BIBLE STUDENTS, SCRIBES AND ILLUMINATORS

From the Anglo-Saxon and Norman Periods to the Introduction of Printing

into England, with Anecdotes Illustrating the History of the

Monastic Libraries of Great Britain in the Olden Time

by F. Somner Merryweather, with

an Introduction by Charles Orr,

Librarian of Case Library.

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