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Bibliotheca

noun
(pl. bibliothecae, bibliothecas)
1.
A collection of books.



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"Bibliotheca" Quotes from Famous Books



... abundantly and distinctly, otherwise. There are two publications of Hartlib's, of the years 1637 and 1638 respectively, the first of a long and varied series that were to come from his pen. Now, both of these are on the subject of Education. "Conatuum Comenianorum Praeludia, ex Bibliotheca S. H.: Oxoniae, Excudebat Gulielmus Turnerus, Academia Typographus, 1637" ("Preludes of the Endeavours of Comenius, from the Library of S. H.: Oxford, Printed by William Turner, University Printer, ...
— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson

... an open doorway—above it an inscription—"Bibliotheca dei Studii Franciscani." Everything stood open to the passer-by. They went in timidly, groped their way to the marble stairs, and mounted. All void and tenantless! At the top of the stairs was ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... earliest works on the formation of a library was written by Bishop Cardona, and published at Tarragona in 1587, in a thin volume entitled De regia S. Laurentii Bibliotheca. De Pontificia Vaticana [etc.]. ...
— How to Form a Library, 2nd ed • H. B. Wheatley

... was edited by Joly, Paris, 1870, 2 vols. 4to.—"Le Roman de Thebes," ed. L. Constans, Paris, 1890, 2 vols. 8vo, wrongly attributed to Benoit de Sainte-More, indirectly imitated from the "Thebaid" of Statius.—"Eneas," a critical text, ed. J. Salvedra de Grave, Halle, Bibliotheca Normannica, 1891, 8vo, also attributed, but wrongly it seems, to Benoit; the work of a Norman, twelfth century; imitated from the "AEneid."—The immense poem of Eustache or Thomas de Kent is still unpublished; the author imitates the romance in "alexandrines" of Lambert le Tort and Alexandre ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand

... 358.).—The following reply to IOTA'S Queries is extracted from Walchii Bibliotheca ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851 • Various



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