The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . extant in two eleventh-century He was succeeded by Eadfrid, who became apriest at the age of thirty, spent the rest of hislife in writing books, and was greatly devoted to In regard to this, Symeons words are :• Multum fervens amore. The author of the an-onymous life of Cuthberht dedicated it to Eadfridand to the family at Lindisfarne, at whose instancehe said he had written it. His fame rests verylargely on his having been the scribe of the mostinteresting and beautiful of all
The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . extant in two eleventh-century He was succeeded by Eadfrid, who became apriest at the age of thirty, spent the rest of hislife in writing books, and was greatly devoted to In regard to this, Symeons words are :• Multum fervens amore. The author of the an-onymous life of Cuthberht dedicated it to Eadfridand to the family at Lindisfarne, at whose instancehe said he had written it. His fame rests verylargely on his having been the scribe of the mostinteresting and beautiful of all early illuminatedMSS., namely, the so-called Lindisfarne famous book was described in the inventoriesof the House at Durham as Liber S. Cuthbertiquidemersus est in mare,1 referring to the bath it had hadin the At the Dissolution it passed into thehands of Robert Bowyer, Clerk of the Parliaments inthe reign of James I., from whom it was acquired by 1 See also Plummer, ii. 271. 2 Raine, Cuthberht, 79 ; Diet, of Chr. Biog., ii. 3. 8 Hardy, Catalogue, i. 365. 4 Ante, p. 3a rO^HjS^.^D « 5^-3 P £ CT
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