Crossword-Solution: CLAUSTRAL 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

How vain and all ignoble seems that greed To him who stands in this dim claustral air With these most sacred ashes at his feet! This dust was Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden this-- The spark that once illumed it lingers still.

For, indeed, what could they have had to say? When they did speak to me it was with their lips hardly moving, in a claustral, clear whisper.

But the manuscripts passed into the hands of Brian Twyne, John’s grandson, who bequeathed them to Corpus Christi College, Oxford; they are still there.[168] John Stow, whose gatherings form part of the Harleian collection, saved some books which once reposed in claustral aumbries, mainly owing to the protection and help of Archbishop Parker.

The plan just given shows the position of this room between the church and the chapter-house, and not far from the common claustral aumbry.

And first, what of the character of the medieval library? During the earlier centuries monastic libraries contained books which were deemed necessary for grammatical study in the claustral schools, and other books, chiefly the Fathers, as we have seen, which were regarded as proper literature for the monk.