"--Hist. Litt. de la France, vii. 117. At
the end of the Ambrose (Hexaemeron) the note reads, "Lanfrancus
ego correxi."
[6] James (M. R.), xxx.
Lanfranc also encouraged original composition, for
Osbern, monk of Canterbury, compiled his lives of St.
Dunstan, St. Alphege, and St. Odo under his eye.
In this work of bookmaking and collecting Lanfranc
was supported or his example was followed by other monks
from Normandy: by Abbot Walter of Evesham, who made
many books;[1] by Ernulf of Rochester, who compiled the
Textus Roffensis; and by many others. At this time grew
up the practice of using English houses to supply books
for Norman abbeys; this partly explains the number of
manuscripts of English workmanship now abroad. A
manuscript preserved in Paris contains a note by a canon
of Ste-Barbe-en-Auge referring to Beckford in Gloucestershire,
an English cell of his house, whence books were sent
to Normandy.[2]
[1] Chron. Abb. de Evesham, 97.
[2] Library of Ste. Genevieve, Paris, MS. E. 1. 17, in 40, fol.
61. The note reads: Quia autem apud Bequefort victualium copia
erat, scriptores etiam ibi habebantur quorum opera ad nos in
Normaniam mittebantur.
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