The golden days of the early English church from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . ontaining nine large volumes, each one labels in question, as Corssen was the first to point out,correspond with one exception to the titles here referred are Oct. lib. Rest. lib. Psal. lib. Sal. Prof. Evangel op. XXI. Act. Ap. Apoca. The one mistake is due,no doubt, to the artist, who instead of Hagi has writtenHest. There cannot be any reasonable doubt that the picture ofthe bookcase and its contents was either directly copied fromthe original MS. of Cassiodorus or
The golden days of the early English church from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . ontaining nine large volumes, each one labels in question, as Corssen was the first to point out,correspond with one exception to the titles here referred are Oct. lib. Rest. lib. Psal. lib. Sal. Prof. Evangel op. XXI. Act. Ap. Apoca. The one mistake is due,no doubt, to the artist, who instead of Hagi has writtenHest. There cannot be any reasonable doubt that the picture ofthe bookcase and its contents was either directly copied fromthe original MS. of Cassiodorus or formed part of that MS. It is prima facie nearly certain that the latter alternative isthe right one, and that the MS. from which the greater part ofthe first quaternion of the Codex Amiati?ius was derived wasthe actual original Codex Grandior of Cassiodorus; otherwise,Bedes language about his having himself seen that Codex isunintelligible. At the end of the seventh and the beginning ofthe eighth century the so-called Vulgate text of Jerome had ^ White, op. cit. 2.()i. VJUOOOO OOo -J j3 m. m m O (, o ^ j-kwr Ezra composing his Edition of the Bible from theCodex Ami a tixus. [Fo/. III., facing p. 326. APPENDIX V 327 supplanted its predecessor, generally known as the Vetus Laii?iaand sometimes as the Itala, which had become obsolete.^ Itwould therefore be of only remote interest to its Italiancustodians, who had themselves become poor judges of suchmatters, for Italy was then terribly troubled by the Lombardsand other invaders, and they would be willing to part with itto a rich Northern traveller anxiously in search for MSS. forhis new monastery. The fact of Jeromes text having becomeso widely recognised would, we cannot doubt, make it veryunlikely that the same Northern traveller would have a newcopy made of the older version on this grand scale. Again, bothwriting and designs in the first quaternion are so Italian instyle and so different to anything English written at this t
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