[Footnote 72: Rashdall, I, p. 436.]

[Footnote 73: _Munimenta Acad. Oxon.,_ I, pp. 35-36.]

[Footnote 74: _Munimenta Acad. Oxon._, I, pp. 242-243.]

[Footnote 75: The figures in brackets indicate the time to be given to
each book, or group of books. The data are from Zarncke, _Statutenbücher
der Univ. Leipzig._, 311-312.]

[Footnote 76: For the requirements in 1519 see p. 134.]




VI

ACADEMIC LETTERS


1. LETTERS RELATING TO PARIS


(a) _A Twelfth-Century Critic_

The pessimist who laments the decay of education, and who feels that its
golden age was the time in which he received his own training, or
earlier, is a perennial figure in the history of education. The
following letter has a surprisingly modern ring. Denifle (p. 747) thinks