University Libraries: Growth & Cultural Impact, 14th -18th ...

Queen’s college at Cambridge listed 192 volumes in 1472, while Merton College of Oxford supplied its twenty fellows in the early 1500s with about 500 books. (Fletcher, 1984, 166.) The late fifteenth century saw a rapid rise in construction of new library buildings, … ................
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