“Inventarium omnium librorum pertinentium ad commune armariole domus Ebor. ordinis fratrum heremitarum Sancti Augustini, factum in presentia fratrum Johannis de Ergum, Johannis Ketilwell, Ricardi de Thorpe, Johannis de Appilby, Anno domini Mº.  CCC lxxij in festo nativitatis virginis gloriose.  Fratre Willelmo de Stayntoun tunc existente priore.”

The volume consists of forty-five leaves, and contains the titles of a very large and most respectable collection of books in all departments of literature and learning arranged under the following heads:—­

Biblie. 
Hystorie scholastice. 
Textus biblie glosati. 
Postille. 
Concordancie et interpretaciones nominum hebreorum. {84}
Originalia. [Under this head are included the
  works of the Fathers, and medieval writers.]
Historie geneium. 
Summe doctorum.  Scriptores super sententias.
  quodlibet. et questiones. 
Tabulae. [This division contained Indexes to
  various authors, the Scriptures, canon law,
  &c.]
Logicalia et philosophia cum scriptis et commentis. 
Prophecie et supersticiosa. 
Astronomia et Astrologia. 
Instrumenta astrologica magistri Johannis Erghome
  [who appears to have been a great
  benefactor to the Library]. 
Libri divini officii magistri Johannis Erghome. 
Jura civilia. 
Jura canonica et leges humane:  magistri Johannis
  Erghome. 
Auctores et philosophi extranei. [Under this
  head occurs the following entry, “Liber hebraice
  scriptus.”]
Gramatica. 
Rethorica. [Two leaves of the MS. appear to
  have been cut out here.]
Medicina. 
Hystorie et cronice. 
Sermones et materie sermonum. 
Summe morales doctorum et sermones. 
Arithmetica, Musica, Geometria, Perspectiva,
  magistri Johannis Erghome.

Each volume is identified, according to the usual practice, by the words with which its second folio begins:  and letters of tha alphabet are added, probably to indicate its place on the shelves of the Library.  As a specimen, I shall give the division headed “Biblie":—­

BIBLIE

A. Biblia. incipit in 2º. fo.  Samuel in[1] heli. 
B. Biblia. incipit in 2º. fo.  Zechieli qui populo.
  in duobus voluminibus. 
C. Biblia. inc’t. in 2º. fo. mea et in crane. 
D. Biblia. inc’t. in 2º. fo. ego disperdam.
  ¶ Libri magistri Johannis Erghome
    Biblia. 2º. fol ravit quosdam. }
    Interpretationes. }—­A
E. Biblia incomplet. diversarum scripturarum.
    quondam fratris R. Bossal. 2º. fo. me
    occidet me etc.

HYSTORIE SCOLASTICE

A. Incipit in 2º. folio. secunda die. 
B. inci’t. in 2º. fo. emperio sane formatis. ligatus. 
C. inci’t. in 2º. fo. et celumque celi.

The words printed in Italics are added by a more recent hand.  Under the head of “Hystorie Scolastice” are doubtless intended the copies which the Library possessed of the celebrated Historia Scholastica, or abridgement of Scripture history by Peter Comestor.