banchi

The sum necessary to defray the cost of these gifts is raised by means of a _banchi_ or poll-tax, to which every adult male contributes; and the return presents, sent from Bangkok, are of precisely the same value, and are, of course, a perquisite of the _Râja_.

In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula Hugh Charles Clifford 1903

The nine seats (_banchi_) of the left side of the Latin Library are gone through in the same way as the first, with the result that each is shewn to have two shelves.

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

The catalogue also mentions a Greek library, which had seven _banchi_ on each side.

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

The original fittings have been removed, but we learn from the catalogue [360] that the books were originally contained in 64 _banchi_, half of which were on the east side and half on the west side of the room.

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

[385] Habuit ultimo ducatos octo pro tribus tabulis ex nuce cornisate (?) ad continenda nomina librorum e per le cornise de tre banchi vechi ex nuce die supradicta; nil omnino restat habere ut ipse sua manu affirmat, computatis in his illis LX bononenis qui superius scribuntur.

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

I will first collect the notices in the Accounts respecting desks, or _banchi_, as they are called, and then compare them with the rooms themselves, and with the descriptions in the catalogues, which are fortunately extremely full; and I think that it will be possible to give a clear and consistent picture of the arrangements.

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

It is stated in the Accounts that _ten banchi_ are paid for, but all the catalogues mention only _nine_.

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

But such activities very soon fell under the scope of the private banks, the Venetian banchi di scritta for instance, or the Neapolitan banks of the sixteenth century, many of whose registers have survived.

Crooks and Liars 2010

In the first place we make a list of the books which are chained to benches (_banchi_) in the Public Library as follows, and observe that all the leaves of all the books which are in this catalogue, whether they are in quires of 12, 10, 8, or any other number of leaves larger or smaller, -- every one of these books contains the denomination of the quires, as appears in the first quire of each book on the lower margin: all the quires being marked at beginning and end in black and red with the figure here shewn, and the number of the quire within it.

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871