[273] De Pontificibus et Sanctis Ecclesiæ Eboracensis.
[274] Alcuini Oper., tom. i. vol. 1, p. 57, translated in Sharpe's William of Malmsbury, p. 73.
[275] Opera, tom. i. p. 305.
[276] In a letter to Gisla, sister to the emperor, he writes "Totius forsitan evangelii Johannis expositionem direxissem vobis, si me non occupasset Domini Regis præceptum in emendatione Veteri Novique Testamenti."—Opera, tom. i. vol. 7, p. 591.
[277] Alcuini, ap. Gale, tom. iii. p. 730.
[278] Alcuini, Oper. tom. i. p. 52. Ep. xxxviii. It was written about 796.
[279] He was also very careful in instructing the scribes to punctuate with accuracy, which he deemed of great importance. See Ep. lxxxv. p. 126.
[280] Necrolog. MS. Capituli, Metropolitani Salisburgensis, apud Froben, tom. i. p. lxxxi.
[281] Charlemagne founded several libraries;—see Koeler, Dissert. de Biblio. Caroli Mog. published in 1727. Eginhart mentions his private collection, and it is thus spoken of in the emperor's will; "Similiter et de libris, quorum magna in bibliotheca sua copiam congregavit: statuit ut ab iis qui eos habere uellet, justo pretio redimeretur, pretin in pauperes erogaretur." Echin. Vita Caroli, p. 366, edit. 24mo. 1562. Yet we cannot but regret the dispersion of this imperial library.
[282] Formerly called Streaneshalch.