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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Library of Syon Monastery, Isleworth This Index again, together with certain cross-references in the text, shews that the library was being reorganized 1504 - 1526, but imperfectly reorganized. Books were being shifted about, and the new scheme, whatever it was, got no further than the destruction of the old. Books mentioned in the Index as under one class-mark occur in the text under another, and it becomes difficult in some cases to distinguish the lost from the displaced books. There is evidence that the librarian's work was not so carefully done in the later period as it was in the earlier. Some of the new entries are carelessly written; the new acquisitions are not paginated as nearly all the early ones were; the new titles are not put in the index; the old subject-grouping has been ignored; in fact the librarian of the later period must have depended on his memory rather than on the catalogue if he wished to lay his hand on the book he sought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.