armarium

Thus in the ten-century rule of Cluny the library is called armarium, and the official who had charge of it armarius, while by an arrangement which was long and widely observed both in Benedictine and in other monastic houses, this armarius, or librarian, was usually identical with the precentor.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Rebecca Tenzer has noted that the book press behind the image of the city is known in Latin as an armarium.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Note 114: Epistolae, 2.7.8: "Parieti eius cubiculi mei in bibliothecæ speciem armarium insertum est quod non legendos libros sed letitandos capit." back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Note 30: Epistolae, 2.7.8: "Parieti eius cubiculi mei in bibliothecae speciem armarium insertum est quod non legendos libros sed letitandos capit" (My cubiculum has a press let into the wall that does duty as a library, and holds books not merely to be read, but read over and over again).

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

For his part, Petrarch had resuscitated such classical authors as Pliny the Younger, who in his private letters described his study — "cubiculi mei" — as located near the bedroom and furnished with an armarium containing books to be read "over and over again."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

In Ælfric's Anglo-Saxon glossary, compiled at the beginning the Anglo-Saxon word bochord (book-hoard, i.e. library), is interpreted bibliotheca vel armarium vel archirum.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

In German the word Almerei, a derivative of armarium, has the meaning of sacristy.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

The more ordinary receptacle for this purpose, up to the seventeenth century, was the armarium near, or an octagon-shaped tower placed on the Gospel side of, the altar.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

French of the classical armarium, or medieval Latin almarium.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

For the safe keeping of the conventual books the preceptor was responsible. 4.67 As he had charge of the armarium or press for storing books, he was also sometimes styled "armarius."

Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911