[[3.1]]
Most old English poems are preserved in unique
manuscripts, sometimes not complete, but in fragments; two fragments,
for example, were found in the bindings of other books.—Warton, ii. 7.
In 1248, only four books in English were at Glastonbury, and they are
described as old and useless.—John of G., 435; Ritson, i. 43. About
fifty years later only seventeen such books were in the big library at
Canterbury.—James (M. R.), 51. A striking illustration of the disuse of
the vernacular among the religious is found in an Anglo-Saxon Gregory's
Pastoral Care, which is copiously glossed in Latin, in two or
three hands. This manuscript, now in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
No. 12, came from Worcester Priory.—James
17, 33.
[[3.3]]
In an eleventh century manuscript in Trinity
College Library, Cambridge (MS. B. 16, 44), is an inscription, perhaps
by Lanfranc himself, recording that he brought it from Bec and gave it
to Christ Church.
[[3.4]]
At the end of the manuscript of Cassian is
written: "Hucusque ego Lanfrancus correxi." Hist. Litt. de la
France, vii. 117. At the end of the Ambrose (Hexaemeron)
the note reads, "Lanfrancus ego correxi."
[[3.5]]
James (M. R.), xxx.
[[3.6]]
Chron. Abb. de Evesham, 97.
[[3.7]]
Library of Ste. Genevieve, Paris, MS. E. 1. 17, in
40, fol. 61. The note reads: Quia autem apud Bequefort victualium copia
erat, scriptores etiam ibi habebantur quorum opera ad nos in Normaniam
mittebantur. Library, v. 2 (1893).
[[3.8]]
Stevenson, Grosseteste, 149.
[[3.9]]
Gesta R. Angl., lib. v.; Camb.
Lit., i. 159-60.
[[3.10]]
Surtees S., Ixix. 341.
[[3.11]]
Merryweather, 96-7.
[[3.12]]
Joh. Glaston, Chronica, ed. Hearne
(1726), ii. 423-44; Merryweather, 140.
[[3.13]]
Librariam fecit optimum pulcherrimum et
copiosum.—Holmes, Wells and Glastonbury, 229.
[[3.14]]
MS. Twyne, Bodl. L., 8, 272.
[[3.15]]
James, and James1.
[[3.16]]
In the fine MS. Cott. Claud. E. iv. (Gesta
Abatum) is a series of portrait miniatures of the abbots, and in
most cases they are represented as reading or carrying books, or with
books about them.
[[3.17]]
Fecit etiam scribi libros plurimos, quos lougum
esset enarrare.
[[3.18]]
Some of the books were restored, others were
resold to the abbey.
[[3.19]]
A lot of forty-nine, with prices attached, is
given in Annales a J. Amund., ii. 268 et seq.
[[3.20]]
Gloucester House, now Worcester College.
[[3.21]]
Dugdale, iv. 405.
[[3.22]]
For St. Albans see Gesta Abbatum., i.
58, 70, 94, 106, 179, 184; ii. 200, 306, 363; iii. 389, 393
[[3.23]]
Mon, Fr., ii. Iviii.
[[3.24]]
Bryce, i. 440n, 29.
[[3.26]]
These works would be Latin translations based
upon Arabic versions Opus Majus, iii. 66; Camb. Lit.,
i. 199; Gasquet3, 156.
[[3.27]]
Close roll, 10 Hen. III, m. 6 (3rd Sep.);
Trivet, Annales, 243; Mon. Fr., i. 185; Stevenson,
76; O. H. S., Little, 57.
[[3.28]]
Wood, Hist. Ant. U. Ox. (1792), i.
329.
[[3.29]]
There is an imperfect catalogue of their library
in Leland, iii. 57.
[[3.31]]
Oliver, Mon. Dioc. Exon., 332, 333.
[[3.32]]
Sussex Archaeol. Collections, i.
(1848), 168-187.
[[3.33]]
Mon. Fr., ii. 18.
[[3.34]]
Cal. of Pap. Letters, iv. 42-43.
[[3.35]]
Leland, iii. 53.
[[3.36]]
Camb. Mod. Hist., i., 597.
[[3.37]]
For date see Stow (Kingsford's ed.), i. 108; i,
318; Mon. Fr., i. 519,
[_]
Camb. Mod. Hist., i. 591.
[[3.40]]
The catalogue is edited by Dr. M. R. James in
Fasciculus Ioanni Willis Clark dicatus, 2-96.
[[3.42]]
Mon. Fr., i. 391.
[[3.44]]
But see O. H. S., Little, 56; Mon.
Fr., ii. 91—Libri fratrum decedentium.
[[3.45]]
Mon. Fr., i. 114.
[[3.46]]
Bodl. MS. Twyne, xxiii. 488; O. H.
S., Little, 60.
[[3.47]]
R. Armachanus, Defensorium Curetorum;
cf. Wyclif' English Works, ed. Matthew, 128, 221.
[[3.48]]
R. de B., Thomas' ed. 203.
[[3.50]]
Gasquet3, 140,
q.v. for full description of these Correctoria.
[[3.51]]
MS. Bodl. Tanner, 165.
[[3.52]]
Camb. MKod. Hist., i. 592; James, xlix.
[[3.53]]
Hist, et Cart. Mon. Glouc., iii. lxxiv.
[[3.54]]
R. de B., c. v. 183.
[[3.55]]
Whitaker, Hist. of Craven, (1805), 330;
another computus, discovered later, does not refer to books (ed.
1878).
[[3.56]]
Morris, Chester during
Plantagenet and Tudor Reigns, 128-129.
[[3.57]]
James, M. R.1,
109-110.
[[3.58]]
Bateson, Med. Eng., 339.
[[3.60]]
E. H. R., xxv. 122.
[[3.62]]
Synesius de laude Calvitii, MS. Bodl.
80.
[[3.63]]
Gasquet2, 36-37.
[[3.64]]
Sandys., ii. 225; and see post, p. 195.
[[3.65]]
Gasquet2, 37;
Rashdall and Rait, New Coll. (1901), 251.
[[3.66]]
A few volumes escaped: a copy of Basil's
Commentary on Isaiah, presumably in Greek, and some others. "Among them
must in all probability be reckoned the first copy of Homer whose
presence can be definitely traced in England since the days of Theodore
of Tarsus." Camb. Mod. Hist,, i. 598. Cp. James, li.
[[3.67]]
Aubrey, Lett. of Em. Per. from the
Bod., i. 278.
[[3.68]]
Laboryouse Journey and Serche of Johann
Leylande for Englandes Antiquitees, by Bale, 1549. Cf. Strype,
Parker (1711), 528.
[[3.69]]
Accounts of John Scudamore (king's receiver),
detailing proceeds of sale of goods from Bordesley Abbey, and other
monasteries. Cam. Soc., xxvi. 269, 271, 275.
[[3.70]]
Fasciculus I. W. Clark dicatus, 16, and
cf. 96.
[[3.71]]
Fasciculus I. W. CIark dicatus, 16,
17.
[[3.72]]
C. A. S. 8vo. Publ., No. 33 (1900), Dr.
James on MSS. in the Library of Lambeth Palace, pp. 1, 2, 6.
[[3.73]]
See Dr. James' view of the dispersion of Bury
Abbey Library.—James1, 9-10.
[[3.74]]
Monasticon, Dugdale, ii. 586-587.
[[3.75]]
Ath. Ox. (1721), i. 82, 83.
[[3.76]]
James (M. R.), lxxxi.
[[3.77]]
Leland, Itinerary (1907), i. xxxviii.
[[3.78]]
James (M. R.)1, II.
[[3.79]]
Notes and Q., 2. i. 485 ; James (M.R.),
lvii, lxxxii.
[[3.80]]
Strype, Parker (1711), 528.
[[3.81]]
James (M. R.), Sources of Archbishop
Parker's MSS. (Camb. Antiq. Soc.).
[[3.82]]
James (M. R.), 505-534.
[[3.83]]
James (M. R.)1, 42;
ibid. xciv. But later Dr. James was less certain of some of his
identifications. See James (M. R.)10,
viii.
[[3.85]]
See also Macray's Annals of the
Bodleian.
