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[2] "Innumerabilem librorum omnis generis copiam
apportavit."--Vitae Abbatum, Section 4.
[3] "Copiosissima et nobilissima bibliotheca."--Ib. Section 11.
[4] Lanciani, Anc. Rome, 201.
[5] 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.
[6] H. E., v. 24
[7] 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.
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