[154] Bede, B. iv. c. xxvii.
[155] Marked Nero, D. iv. in the Cottonian collection.
[156] The illuminations are engraved in Strutt's Horda.
[157] There is prologue to the Canons and Prefaces of St. Jerome and Eusebius, and also a beautiful calendar written in compartments, elaborately finished in an architectural style.
[158] He also transcribed the Durham Ritual, recently printed by the Surtee Society; when Alfred wrote this volume he was with bishop Alfsige, p. 185, 8vo. Lond. 1840.
[159] For an account of this rare gem of Saxon art, see Selden Præf. ad. Hist. Angl. p. 25. Marshall Observat. in Vers. Sax. Evang., 491. Dibdin's Decameron, p. lii. Smith's Bibl. Cotton. Hist. et Synop., p. 33.
[160] Simeon of Durham translated by Stevens, p. 87.
[161] Simeon of Durham, by Stevens.
[162] Ep. viii.
[163] Tertia Quinquagina Augustini, marked B. ii. 14.