[[2.1]]
Hist. mon. S. Augustini, Cant., 96-99,
"Et haec sunt primitiae librorum totius ecclesiae Anglicanae,"
99.
[[2.3]]
Stanley, Hist. Mem. of C. (1868), 42.
[[2.4]]
Hist. mon. S. Aug., xxv.
[[2.5]]
B. M. Reg. I. E vi. may be a part of the Gregorian
Bible, or the second copy of the Gospels mentioned above, if this second
copy is not Corpus Christi, Camb. 286. Corpus C. 286 is a seventh
century book, certainly from St. Augustine's; it was probably brought to
England in the time of Theodore, and though it may be one of the books
referred to above, is, therefore, not Augustinian. The Psalter bearing
the silver images is "most likely" Cott. Vesp. A. I, an eighth century
manuscript; it is, therefore, not Augustinian, although it may be a copy
of the original Psalter given by Gregory.—James, lxvi.
[[2.6]]
Known as Codex E, or the Laudian Acts (Laud. Gr.
35). Bede refers to a Greek manuscript of the Acts in his
Retractationes; possibly this is the actual copy. The last page
of the book bears the signature "Theodore"; did Archbishop Theodore
bring the volume to England?" It is at least safe to say that the
presence of such a book in England in Bede's time can hardly be entirely
independent of the influence of Theodore or of Abbot Hadrian."— James
(M. R.), xxiii.
[[2.7]]
H. E., iv. 2, tr. Sellar.
[[2.10]]
This copy was still at Malmesbury in the twelfth
century.—W. of Malmesbury, Ang. Sacr., ii. 21.
[[2.11]]
Sandys, i. 466; Camb. Eng. Lit., i.
75.
[[2.12]]
Camb, Eng., Lit., i. 45.
[[2.13]]
These foundations were regarded as one house,
the inmates being bound together by "a common and perpetual affection
and intimacy."
[[2.14]]
"Innumerabilem librorum omnis generis copiam
apportavit." Vitae Abbatum, § 4.
[[2.15]]
"Copiosissima et nobilissima bibliotheca."
Ib. § 11.
[[2.16]]
Lanciani, Anc. Rome, 201.
[[2.17]]
Ceoffrid, Benedict Biscop's successor, added a
number of books to the library, among them three copies of the Vulgate,
and one of the older version. One copy of the Vulgate Ceolfrid took
with him to Rome (716) to give to the Pope. He died on the way. The
codex did not go to Rome; now, it is in the Laurentian Library,
Florence, where it is known as the Codex Amiatinus. The writing is
Italian, or at any rate foreign, so it must have been imported, or
written at Jarrow by foreign scribes. This volume is the chief
authority for the text of Jerome's translation of the Scriptures.
[[2.19]]
Bede frequently quotes Cicero, Virgil, and
Horace; usually selecting some telling phrase, e.g. "caeco
carpitur igni" (H. E. ii. 12). In his De Natura rerum
he owes a good deal to Pliny and Isidore. In his commentaries on the
Scriptures he displays an extent of reading which we have no space to
give any idea of. His chronologies were based on Jerome's edition of
Eusebius, on Augustine and Isidore. In his H. E. he uses
"Pliny, Solinus, Orosius, Eutropius Marcellinus Comes, Gildas, probably
the Historia Brittonum, a Passion of St. Alban, and
the Life of Germanus of Auxerre by Constantius"; while he
refers to lives of St. Fursa, St. Ethelburg, and to Adamnan's work on
the Holy Places. Cf. Sandys, i. 468; Camb. Lit., i. 80-81.
Bede also got first-hand knowledge: the Lindisfarne records provided
him with material on Cuthbert; information came to him from Canterbury
about Southern affairs and from Lastingham about Mercian affairs.
Nothelm got material from the archives at Rome for him.
[[2.20]]
Tr. in Morley, Eng. Writers, ii. 160.
[[2.21]]
Tr. in West, Alcuin, 34-35.
[[2.22]]
Tr. in King's Letters, ed. Steele
(1903), I. Cf. Bodl. MS Hatton, 20; Cott. MS. Otho B
2; Corpus C. C., Camb. MS. 12.
[[2.23]]
MS. Cott. Tib. B xi.—a copy of Alfred's version of the
Cura, or what is left of it—has been connected with Archbishop
Plegmund, the evidence being a Saxon inscription on the manuscript
Wanley, however, doubted the conclusiveness of this evidence, which,
together with most of the text, was lost in the fire of 1731. —James,
xxiii-iv.
[[2.25]]
Hunt, Hist. of Eng. Church, i.
326.
[[2.26]]
Strutt, Saxon Antiq., i. 105, pl.
xviii. The picture is in a large volume containing part of a grammar and
certain other pieces used at Glastonbury.— MS. Auct. F. iv.
32. Over the picture is the inscription: Pictura et scriptura hujus
paginae subtus visa est de propria muanu Sci. Dunstani.
[[2.27]]
Stubbs, Mem. of Dunstan, cx.-cxii.
[[2.28]]
Chron. Mon. de Abingdon, ii. 263.
[[2.30]]
Archaeologia, xxiv. I9.
[[2.31]]
B. M. Cott. Vesp., A. viii., written
966.
[[2.32]]
Hook, Archbishops, i. 453 (1st ed.).
[[2.33]]
Chron. Abb. de E., 83.
