Old English libraries

by Ernest Albert Savage

[146] James, M. R.¹, 109-110.

[147] Bateson, Med. Eng., 339.

[148] Gasquet⁴, 49.

[149] E. H. R., xxv. 122.

[150] Bateson, vii.

[151] Synesius de laude Calvitii, MS. Bodl. 80.

[152] Gasquet², 36-37.

[153] Sandys., ii. 225; and see post, p. 195.

[154] Gasquet², 37; Rashdall and Rait, New Coll. (1901), 251.

[155] A few volumes escaped: a copy of Basil’s Commentary on Isaiah, presumably in Greek, and some others. “Among them must in all probability be reckoned the first copy of Homer whose presence can be definitely traced in England since the days of Theodore of Tarsus.”—Camb. Mod. Hist., i. 598. Cp. James, li.