TY - BOOK AU - Clark,John Willis TI - Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods: The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894 AV - Z PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Libraries -- History -- 400-1400 KW - Libraries -- History -- 1400-1600 KW - Manuscripts, Renaissance KW - Manuscripts, Medieval N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libraries_in_the_Medieval_and_Renaissance_Periods; Release date is 2006-10-01; Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Christine D. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods" by John Willis Clark is a lecture delivered in 1894. Originally presented at the University of Cambridge with lantern slides, it traces the evolution of libraries from ancient Rome through the Renaissance. Clark explores monastic book collections, the growth of university libraries at Oxford and Cambridge, and distinctive practices like chaining books to shelves. The work examines how religious customs influenced academic library design and how the advent of printing transformed library practices across centuries. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19415 ER -