[293] Radbertus was Abbot of Corbie, near Amiens, from 844 to 851. The book which is here named was one of the early arguments in favour of “transubstantiation.”
[294] i.e., Account Book.
[295] Geoffrey was Abbot of Burton from 1114 to 1150. His life of St. Modwen is mentioned supra, p. 220.
[296] By St. Jerome.
[297] Joannes Eleemosynarius, or Misericors, Patriarch of Alexandria, 609–616; the original patron saint of the Hospitallers.
[298] “The quires or gatherings of which the book was formed generally consisted, in the earliest examples, of four sheets folded to make eight leaves” (Encyclopædia Britannica, xviij, 144), hence “quaternio” or quarto.
[299] St. Martha the Egyptian.
[300] Historia Apostolica ex Luca expressa, a poem in Latin hexameters, which is described as bad in style and treatment, filled with far-fetched metaphors and wearisome digressions. Arator lived in the middle of the sixth century and his poem is dedicated in flattering terms to Pope Vigilius.
[301] See Note 17 supra.
[302] See Note 23 supra.