HERE BEGIN THE CHAPTERS OF THE PHILOBIBLON OF RICHARD, BISHOP OF DURHAM HERE BEGIN THE CHAPTERS OF THE PHILOBIBLON OF RICHARD, BISHOP OF DURHAM
That the treasure of wisdom lieth especially in books.
What love is reasonably due to books.
How in buying books the price is to be fixed.
The complaint of books against the clerks lately promoted.
The complaint of books against the religious possessioners.
The complaint of books against the religious mendicants.
The complaint of books against war.
Of the manifold opportunity we have had for gathering a multitude of books.
Of the successive perfecting of books.
Why we have preferred the books of the liberal arts before the books of law.
Why we have taken such diligent care to amend the books of grammar.
Why we have not wholly neglected the fables of the poets.
Who ought to be the especial lovers of books.
What benefits the love of books confers.
How worthy a task it is to write new books and repair old ones.
Of showing honourable respect in the care of books.
Of the manner of distributing our books to all students.
An exhortation to scholars to repay in supplications on our behalf the debt of piety they owe.