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Also known as armarium, armaria claustri, armarium claustri

thumb | right | alt=A stone wall with two openings divided by a pillar | Armarium at Le Thoronet abbey in FranceArmaria (singular armarium) are a kind of closed, labeled cupboards that were used for book storage from ancient history until the Middle Ages.

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Vinony's link graph records 4 inbound references to armaria, and connects out to Aristotle, music and Plato.

Vinony files it under Cabinets (furniture) and Library of Alexandria.

Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.

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Armarium
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Pauly–Wissowa
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thumb | right | alt=A stone wall with two openings divided by a pillar | Armarium at Le Thoronet abbey in FranceArmaria (singular armarium) are a kind of closed, labeled cupboards that were used for book storage from ancient history until the Middle Ages.

They were probably used in the library of Alexandria. They were also used for storage of important papal documents in the Vatican Archives.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “armaria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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