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. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Rebecca Tenzer has noted that the book press behind the image of the city is known in Latin as an armarium. ❋ Unknown (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 ❋ Unknown (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). ❋ Unknown (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." ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
In German the word Almerei, a derivative of armarium, has the meaning of sacristy. ❋ 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. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
French of the classical armarium, or medieval Latin almarium. ❋ 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." ❋ Unknown (1911)
Itaque ‘non est,’ i.e. * [1351] Scio scripturam Enoch ... non recipi a quibusdam quia nec in armarium Judaicum admittitur ... a vobis quidem nihil omnino rejiciendum est quod pertinent ad nos ❋ Unknown (1906)
Ark: desk on pattern of, 297 armarium: in Ulpian library, 20; described by Nibby, 37; to contain _codices_, _ibid. ❋ John Willis Clark (1871)
Parieti eius [cubiculi mei] in bibliothecæ speciem armarium insertum est quod non legendos libros sed lectitandos capit. ❋ John Willis Clark (1871)
I pointed out in the first chapter that the word press (_armarium_) was used by the Romans to signify both a detached piece of furniture and a recess in a wall into which such a contrivance might be inserted [175]. ❋ John Willis Clark (1871)
A Roman reading a roll in front of a press (_armarium_). ❋ John Willis Clark (1871)
Cantor habebit cathedram suam ante armarium in claustro stantem et carulam suam iuxta desuper lapidem inter columpnas. ❋ John Willis Clark (1871)
Darius, crowned, his back half turned to the spectator, is giving orders to several young men, who are taking books out of an _armarium_ -- evidently copied from one of the Vatican book-cupboards. ❋ John Willis Clark (1871)
Again, when a library (_bibliotheca_) has been bequeathed, it is questioned whether the bequest includes merely the press or presses (_armarium vel armaria_), or the books as well [93]. ❋ John Willis Clark (1871)
[364] Ducange s.v. _solarium_ shews that occasionally it = _armarium_. ❋ John Willis Clark (1871)
[141] As I know of no other passage in a medieval writer which describes an _armarium_, I transcribe the original text: Armarium, in quo libri reponuntur, intrinsecus ligno vestitum esse debet ne humor parietum libros humectet vel inficiat. ❋ John Willis Clark (1871)
