Excerpt from The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin's Priory at Dover; Now first Collected and Published With an Introduction and Identifications of the Extant Remains There will be some, however, who do not desire to go very deeply into medieval bibliography, but who will be interested in books of some special class. They will seek to know, for instance, what classical authors were read or owned by the Canterbury monks. For these the task is not so heavy. The catalogues before us, notably that of St Augus tine's, are to a great extent subject - catalogues and a glance at the analytical table which follows this preface will show where groups of books of a given type may be found. They will need, it is true, to read through a considerable portion of the larger catalogue of Christ Church in order to make their survey complete: but, after all, the time spent in this will be very little longer than that required for looking up a series of references in an index.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.