"To ensure their safe return, some monasteries put their volumes under anathemata, threatening unfaithful borrowers with excommunication." -- Andrew Pettigree and Arthur der Weduwen, The Library (London: Profile Books, 2021), p 40
The Library looks very promising on first acquaintance - often all I manage of books these days - and Index, A History of the is something I'll have to look for!
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