Æthelwold's gift of Books
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
Summary
This is the text of the paragraph relating to books, as it appears in the Chartulary, MS. 60 of the Society of Antiquaries. It is on f. xxxiv (39), written in one paragraph, in a fine twelfth-century hand.
And antpentig is þara boca þe Adeluuold biscop ge sealde in to Burch. þ is þonne.
beda in marcum.
liber miraculorum.
Expositio hebreorum nominum.
Prouisio futurarum rerum.
Augustinus de achademicis.
Vita sancti felicis metrice.
Sinonima isidori.
Vita eustachii.
Descidia parisiace polis.
Medicinalis.
De duodecim abusiuis.
Sermo super quosdam psalmos.
Commentura 〈in〉 cantica canticorum.
De eucharistia.
Commentum martiani.
Alchimi. Auiti.
Liber differentiarum.
Cilicius Ciprianus.
De litteris grecorum.
liber bestiarum.
In the lists of plate, vestments, etc., which precedes this is mention of a Gospel book.
No. 2, Liber miraculorum, may be the Seven Wonders of the World, or conceivably the Dialogues of Gregory.
No. 4 is probably the Pronosticon futuri saeculi of Julianus of Toledo.
No. 6, Paulinus of Nola, was seen by Leland, as also No. 8.
No. 9 is Abbo of St. Germain's poem on the siege of Paris.
No. 16, Alchimi. Auiti., so written, can hardly be two titles, but one.
No. 18. Cilicius, must be for Caecilius.
Most of the volumes probably contained a number of tracts besides the single ones named.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1921