Armaria

Armaria are a kind of closed, labeled cupboards that were used for book storage in ancient times up till the middle ages.

They were probably used in the library of Alexandria

References

http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/alex.htm (under "the Roman library")... Although this refers to chests instead? Source used not traceable from that page...

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