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René Boulangé in the “Journal de la Librairie,” and he and the Abbé Valentin Dufour in the “Bibliophile Français,” have written some interesting articles on that ancient custom of enchaining books by the way of a description of the Hereford Library.
The library of the cathedral of Hereford is extant in its primitive state. It contains 236 manuscripts,