...parchment; and as the price of that article was high, books became extremely rare and of great value. The countess of Anjou paid for a copy of the Homilies...quarters of wheat, and the same quantity of rye and miJJet. Qn.p pircmncircumstance will strongly mark the scarcity of the materials, while it gives us...

...him to lend him a copy of Cicero de Oratore and Quintilian's Institutions, " for," says he, " ahhough we have parts of those books, there is no complete...Literaire de France par des Religieux Benedictins, torn. vii. p. 3. Even so late as the year 1471, when Louis XI. borrowed the works of Rasis, the Arabian...

...parchment ; and as the price of that article was high, books became extremely rare and of great value. The countess of Anjou paid for a copy of the Homilies...of wheat, and the same quantity of rye and millet. One circumstance will strongly mark the scarcity of the materials, while it gives us occasion to regret...

...extremely rare and of great value. The countess of Anjou paid for a copy of the Homilies of I lainion, bishop of Halberstadt, two hundred sheep, five quarters of wheat, and the SMI iic quantity of rye and millet. One circumstance will strongly mark the scarcity of the materials,...

...knowledge among the people. We have it from good authority, that about AD 1215, the Countess of Anjou paid two hundred sheep, five quarters of Wheat, and the same quantity of rye, for a volume of sermons ; so scarce and dear were books at that time ; and although the Countess might,...

...only one missal. Murat. Antiq. vol. ix. p. 789. Lupus, abbot of Ferrieres, in a letter to the pope, AD 855, beseeches him to lend him a copy of Cicero de...quantity of rye and millet. Histoire Literaire de Fiance par des Religicux Benedictins, tom. vii. p. 3. Even so late as the year 1471, when Louis XI....

...small library cost a great estate. The Countess of Anjou paid for a copy of the homilies of Haimon, two hundred sheep, five quarters of wheat, and the same quantity of rye. and millet. — Dr. Robertson. 95. Be not desirous of having it to say, that you have perused a vast number of...

...high, that persons of a moderate fortune could not afford to purchase them. 'The countess of Anjoupaid for a copy of the Homilies of Haimon, bishop of Halberstadt,...Literaire de France par des Religieux Benedictins, torn, vii, p. 3. Even so late as the year 1471, when Louis XI borrowed the works- of Rasis, the Arabian...

...of Anjou paid for a copy of the Homilies of Haimon, bishop of Halberstadt, two hundred sheep, tive quarters of wheat, and the same quantity of rye and...Benedictins, tom, vii, p. 3. Even so late as the year 1711, when Louis XI. borrowed the works of Rasis, the Arabian physician, from the faculty of medicine...

...countess of Anjou paid for a copy of the Homilies of Haimon, bishop of Halbcrstadt, two hundred sheep, hve quarters of wheat, and the same quantity of rye and millet. Histoire Literaire de France par des Ileligieux Benedictins, tom, vii, p. 3. Even so late as the year , 1741, when Louis XI. borrowed the...