In 1651 Humphrey Cheetham directed the books he gave to certain specified parish-churches near Manchester to be chained; in 1694 James Leaver gave books to the grammar-school at Bolton in Lancashire which were chained in a cupboard very like the armarium of a monastic cloister Book-cupboard and desk at Bolton, Lancashire.— Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894
The _armarium commune_ (_ibid.— The Care of Books
A, book-room: B, _armarium commune_.]— The Care of Books
Here, I believe, stood in the thirteenth century the _armarium commune_, or common bookcase (_ibid.— The Care of Books
They would take the _armarium_ that was in daily use, and adapt it to their own purposes.— The Care of Books
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