Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The custodian of a library: formerly used for the now current librarian, 2.
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Examples
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"Mr. Bowles, the Bodleian library-keeper, came, and I spent most of the time showing him some of the rarities here, to his great wonder and satisfaction."
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I have counted out, in the presence of Clement, steward of the household of His Holiness our Master, Salvatus the library-keeper (_librarius_), and Demetrius the reader (_lector_), 45 ducats to Francis the carpenter of
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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Item, I give and bequeath the sum of one hundred pounds of the like lawful money of Great Britain to the chancellor, doctors, and masters of arts of the university of Oxon, for the use and benefit of the public library of that place, and the buying into it such modern authors of principal note, as the vice-chancellor and head library-keeper for the time being shall judge both most useful and most wanting there.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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Maccarty, of the same persuasion, was made library-keeper, and the whole foundation was changed into a catholic seminary.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. From William and Mary to George II. Tobias George Smollett 1746
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* Stephen Duck, a poor tbreaber, having written soine venet, they were ihowD. to Queen Caroline; who made him her library-keeper at Riclunond.
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Dom Le Noir, a learned Benedictin monk of the congregation of St. Maur, and library-keeper at Fecam, who is employed in compiling a history of Normandy, gives me the following information by a letter from Fecam: "On tient ici à Féca, pas une espèce de tradition que Hastings, port d'Angleterre, sur la
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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I did accept the trouble of being library-keeper at St. James's, and therein was much persuaded by Mr. Selden, who swore that if I did not undertake the charge of them, all those rare monuments of antiquity, those choice books and MSS. would be lost, and there were not the like of them except only in the Vatican, in any other library in Christendom. "
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Cosins, Mr. Henry Briggs, Mr. John Bain - 'bridge, Mr. Jonn Greaves, Sir Patric Young preceptor to James L Patrio Young library-keeper to the same, and Dr. John Dee. —
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812
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Having entered into holy orders, and obtained preferment at the express interposition of the king (Henry VIII.), he was appointed his antiquary and library-keeper; and a royal commission was issued, in which Leland was directed to search after "ENGLAND'S ANTIQUITIES, and peruse the libraries of all cathedrals, abbies, priories, colleges,
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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