[3] Leland gives a list of only twenty-one manuscripts,
but it was not his habit to make full inventories. In Stow's
time, however, few books remained.[4] Three volumes only
can be traced now--(1) a manuscript of Avicenna, (2) the
Chronicle of Ralph de Diceto in the Lambeth Palace
Library, and (3) the Miracles of the Virgin, in the Aberdeen
University Library.[5]
[1] Stow, i. 328.
[2] Dugdale, Hist. of St. Paul's, 392-398.
[3] Ibid., 399.
[4] Stow, i. 328.
[5] Ibid., ii. 346; Simpson, Reg. S. Pauli, 13, 78, 133, 173,
227.
Section VII
Although neither a monastic nor a collegiate church,
Wells was already in the thirteenth century a place with
some equipment for educational work. Besides the
choristers' school, a schola grammaticalis of a higher
grade was in existence. After 1240 the Chancellor's
duties included lecturing on theology. Not improbably,
therefore, a collection of books was formed very early.
And indeed the Dean and Chapter in 1291 received from
the Dean of Sarum books lent by the Chapter, and some
others bequeathed to them. Hugo of St. Victor, Speculum
de Sacramentis, and Bede, De Temporibus, were the books
returned from Sarum; among those bequeathed were
Augustine's Epistles and De Civitate Dei, Gregory the
Great's Speculum, and John Damascenus.
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