[4] I.e. for practically nothing, a mere song.

[5] Wood (Gulch), 918-19.

[6] With Bodley's noble work this book has no concern. The story
has been told briefly in Mr. Nicholson's Pietas Oxoniensis, and
with more detail in Dr. Macray's Annals of the Bodleian.

[7] MS. francais, I. I.

[8] Delisle, Le Cabinet des MSS., i. 152.



CHAPTER VII. ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: CAMBRIDGE

Section I

AS the libraries of Cambridge were mostly of later
foundation than those at Oxford, and as the collections
were of the same character, it is less necessary
to describe them in detail, especially after having dealt
fully with the collections of the sister university. Cambridge
University does not seem to have owned books in
common until the first quarter of the fifteenth century.
Before that, in 1384, the books intended for use in the
University were submitted to the Chancellor and Doctors,
so that any containing heretical and objectionable opinions
could be weeded out and burnt. In 1408-9 it was