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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Publisher's Note
The Prologue
Contents
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
That though we love more the works of the ancients yet we have not condemned the studies of the moderns
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
That we have gathered such a multitude of books for the common advantage of scholars, and not only for our own pleasure
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
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