Rebecca Tenzer has noted that the book press behind the image of the city is known in Latin as an armarium. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
Note 114: Epistolae, 2.7.8: "Parieti eius cubiculi mei in bibliothecæ speciem armarium insertum est quod non legendos libros sed letitandos capit." back. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
French of the classical armarium, or medieval Latin almarium. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
In German the word Almerei, a derivative of armarium, has the meaning of sacristy. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
The more ordinary receptacle for this purpose, up to the seventeenth century, was the armarium near, or an octagon-shaped tower placed on the Gospel side of, the altar. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
In Ælfric's Anglo-Saxon glossary, compiled at the beginning the Anglo-Saxon word bochord (book-hoard, i.e. library), is interpreted bibliotheca vel armarium vel archirum. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Aumbries, "armaria"; "armarium" was a monastic term for a book-chest, hence also ` a library '; and the librarian was called "armarius" ( "The Care of Books" by Mrs. J.W. Clark). From Wordnik.com. [The Love of Books: the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury] Reference
(the turris Eucharistica) which was placed in an armarium. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Besides panaceas, martial amulets, unguentum armarium, balsams, strange extracts, elixirs, and such like magico-magnetical cures. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
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