On the bottom right of this lovely ninth-century depiction of St Matthew writing his Gospel, we see a book chest containing 3 codices and a scroll. This was the standard way books were kept until around the 12th century: stacked flat on top of each other in chests. Bookshelves were invented much more recently than one might think!
(The text across the image is bleed-through from the previous page).
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