Alcuin of YorkLectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908 . 1 i g. ?????bHBHHIs Some remains of Marmoutier. To face. p. 222. THE ABBEY OF CORMERY. 223 England would now have possessed if municipalauthorities had taken snch care as this of themonastic libraries in the time of Henry VIII. In translating1 the life of Alcuin, we omittedone of the examples of Alcnins insight into theways of men which the anonymous author relates to Cormery, some miles up the riverIndre, one of the places from which manuscriptswere brought into the library of Tours. The trickplaye
Alcuin of YorkLectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908 . 1 i g. ?????bHBHHIs Some remains of Marmoutier. To face. p. 222. THE ABBEY OF CORMERY. 223 England would now have possessed if municipalauthorities had taken snch care as this of themonastic libraries in the time of Henry VIII. In translating1 the life of Alcuin, we omittedone of the examples of Alcnins insight into theways of men which the anonymous author relates to Cormery, some miles up the riverIndre, one of the places from which manuscriptswere brought into the library of Tours. The trickplayed was as clever in itself as the detection ofit was. It got over the difficulty of the vesselsbeing found to be partly empty, and the difficultythat, if they were filled up with water, the tasterof the monastery would detect the fraud at once. This is the passage in the Life :— To the brothers of Cormery, whom he greatlyloved, the father had ordered a hundred measuresof wine to be given. When the wine was to betaken to the monastery, he ordered the stewardsof the monastery, th
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