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[110] Hist. Litt. de la France, vol. vii. p. 117.
[111] _Ibid._ "Il rendit de meme service a trois ecrits de S.
Ambrose l'Hexameron, l'apologie de David et le traite des Sacrements, tels qu'on les voit a la bibliotheque de St. Vincent du Mans."
[112] _Ibid._
[113] Malmsb. de Gest. Pontif. b. i. p. 216.
[114] See Epist. 16. Lib. i.
[115] Edmer. Vit. Anselm, apud Anselm Opera.--_Edit. Benedict_, 1721, b. i. p. 4.
[116] Epp. 10-20, lib. i. and 24 b. ii.
[117] Codic. fol. first cla.s.s, a dextr. Sc. Med. 5.
[118] Warton's Hist. Eng. Poetry. Dissert, ii.
[119] Dart's Canterb. p. 132. Dugdale's Monast. vol. i. p. 85.
[120] There is, or was, in St. Peter's college, Cambridge, a MS.
volume of 21 books, which formerly belonged to this worthy Bibliophile.--_Dart_, p. 137.
[121] Pet.i.tion Apol. 4to. 1604, p. 17.
[122] Brit. Mus. Vesp. A. i.
[123] Wanley Librorum Vett Septentrionalium fol. Oxon, 1705, p. 172.
[124] Dugdale's Monast. Angl. vol. i. p. 112.
[125] MS. Cot. Galba. E. iv.
[126] See what has been said on this subject in the previous chapter.
[127] MS. Galla, E. iv. fol. 133.
[128] MS. fol. 122.
[129] _Textus Magnus auro coopertus et gemmis ornatus, c.u.m majistate in media, et 4 Evangelistis in 4 Angulis. Ibid._
[130] Somner Antiq. Cant. 4to. 1640, p. 174, he is speaking of books in general.
[131] Duck Vita Chich. p. 104.
[132] Dugdale, vol. i. p. 86. Dart, p. 158, and Somner Ant. Cant.
174.
[133] Somner, 294 and 295; see also Leland Scriptor. He was well versed in the Greek language, and his monument bears the following line:
"Doctor theologus Selling Graeca atque Latina, Linqua perdoctus."--See Warton's Hist. Poet., ii. p. 425.
[134] There is a catalogue written in the sixteenth century, preserved among the Cotton MS., containing the t.i.tles of seventy books belonging to Canterbury Library. It is printed in Leland Collect. vol. iv. p. 120, and in Dart's Hist. Cant. Cath.; but they differ slightly from the Cott. MS. Julius, c. vi. 4, fol. 99.
[135] Monachus Roffensis de Vita Gundulphi, 274.
[136] Will. Malms. de Gest. Pont. Ang. ap Rerum. Ang. Script, 133.
[137] Histoire Litteraire de Fr., tom. vii. p. 118.
[138] Biblioth. Latine, b. vii. p. 519.
[139] Hist. Litt. de Fr., tom. ix. p. 373.
[140] Thorpe Regist. Roffens, fol. 1769, p. 118.
[141] Wharton Angl. Sacr., tom. 1, p. 342.
[142] Thorpe Regist. Rof., p. 120. Dugdale's Monast., vol. 1, p.
157.
[143] Thorpe Reg. Rof., p. 121.
[144] A catalogue of this library is preserved among the Bodleian MSS. No. 920, containing many fine old volumes. I am not aware that it has been ever printed.
[145] "Textum Evangeliorum aureum." Reg. Rof., p. 121.
[146] _Ibid._, p. 121.
[147] Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. 1, p. 156.
[148] Wharton's Ang. Sac, tom. 1, p. 346.
[149] Thorpe Reg. Rof., p. 121.
[150] Thorpe Reg. Rof., 121. Dugdale's Monast., vol. i. p. 158.
[151] Reg. Rof., pp. 122, 123.
[152] In a long list of gifts by Robert de Hecham, I find "librum Ysidore ethimologiarum possuit in armarium claustri et alia plura fecit."--_Thorpe Reg. Rof._, p. 123.
CHAPTER V.
_Lindesfarne.--St. Cuthbert's Gospels.--Destruction of the Monastery.--Alcuin's Letter on the occasion.--Removal to Durham.--Carelepho.--Catalogue of Durham Library.--Hugh de Pusar.--Anthony Bek.--Richard de Bury and his Philobiblon, etc._
