The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . uble arch of twisted-rope pattern, and containsthe prologue and the list of books in the succeeding was once, no doubt, as Professor Corssen suggests, anintegral part of the Amiatinus volume, forming probably itsinitial pages. There are some slight discrepancies between theprologue and the contents of the book, which is also the casewith the temple of contents. On this Bishop Browne says : Itwill be found on counting the books recited that they are thirty-six. Adding one each for 2 Samu
The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . uble arch of twisted-rope pattern, and containsthe prologue and the list of books in the succeeding was once, no doubt, as Professor Corssen suggests, anintegral part of the Amiatinus volume, forming probably itsinitial pages. There are some slight discrepancies between theprologue and the contents of the book, which is also the casewith the temple of contents. On this Bishop Browne says : Itwill be found on counting the books recited that they are thirty-six. Adding one each for 2 Samuel, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and2 Esdras, we obtain seventy, the number of the prologue. Onthe other hand, the codex actually contains seventy-one,Jeremiah and Lamentations being represented in the contents as Hosemias. Thus the discrepancies may not be real. The rest of the folios in the first quaternion—namely,2> 3) 5> 6, 7, and 8—had nothing whatever to do originallywith the succeeding codex and have been transplanted fromanother MS. They were probably added to this one by Ceolfrid. a PLAN OF THE JEWISH TABERNACLE FROM THECODEX A. ///., facing-p. 324. APPENDIX V 325 to give his present to the Pope a grander and more sumptuous ap-pearance. The Codex is quite complete without these is plain, therefore, that the first quaternion of the CodexAmiatinus, with the exception of fol. 4, had nothing to do withthe MS. as originally written, that fol. i was the composition ofCeolfrid himself, and that the other folios formed a transportedboulder from some other MS. Let us now turn to the boulder in question, folios 2, 3,5, 6, 7, and 8 of quaternion i. Whence did it come? It hadalready been noticed by Dr. Corssen in 1883 that one of thepictures in the 2nd and 3rd folios of the Codex Amiatinus—namely, that of the Tabernacle—was also mentioned by Cassio-dorus as contained in a codex in his library which was calledby him the Codex Grandior Cassiodorus thus spea
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