" The
manuscript of Homer, now in Corpus Christi Library,
Cambridge, did not belong to Theodore, but to Prior
Selling, of whom we shall hear later. But possibly the
famous Graeco-Latin copy of the Acts, now in the Bodleian
Library, belonged either to Theodore or to his companion,
Hadrian.[1]
[1] 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.
Theodore, with Hadrian's help, not only started the
Canterbury School, but encouraged similar foundations in
other English monasteries. In southern England, however,
Canterbury remained the centre of learning, and many
ecclesiastics were attracted to it in consequence. Bede
amply proves its efficiency as a school. And forasmuch as
both Theodore and Hadrian were "fully instructed both in
sacred and in secular letters, they gathered a crowd of
disciples, and rivers of wholesome knowledge daily flowed
from them to water the hearts of their hearers; and, together
with the books of Holy Scripture, they also taught
them the metrical art, astronomy, and ecclesiastical arithmetic.
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