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.
No further hint of books occurs until Theodore became
Archbishop more than seventy years later. Theodore, who
had been educated both at Tarsus and Athens, where he
became a good Greek and Latin scholar, well versed in secular
and divine literature, began a school at Canterbury for the
study of Greek, and provided it with some Greek books.
None of these books has been traced with certainty. Some
may have existed in Archbishop Parker's time. "The Rev.
Father Matthew," says Lambarde, in his Perambulation of
Kent, . . . "showed me, not long since, the Psalter of David,
and sundry homilies in Greek, Homer also, and some other
Greek authors, beautifully written on thick paper with the
name of this Theodore prefixed in the front, to whose
library he reasonably thought (being led thereto by show
of great antiquity) that they sometime belonged.
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