James
believes, were given by Lanfranc or produced under his
direction.[6]
[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] Becker, 199, 257
[4] 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.
[5] At the end of the manuscript of Cassian is written: "Hucusque
ego Lanfrancus correxi.
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