P quite famoniúda spraquacrfanguifetzrelunúfunt. Suefamon whominuaccipimus unera dedonif accipescaruif 9 us pater albinur deuotopecore fupplex Nominifadlaudem obtulit eccettu. romequifq: legar uerful orare memento a Lchuined cor ego zu finefineuale THE ALCHUINE BIBLE, now found in the British Museum. During the dark period which elapsed between the date of St. Jerome's Vulgate The Alchuine Bible in the British Museum (Ninth Century) During the dark period which elapsed between the date of St. Jerome's Vulgate revision of the Scriptures and the close of the eighth century, the text of the Sacred Volume had become so corrupted by the carelessness and willfulness of transcribers that a fresh revision became necessary, and was undertaken by the great Anglo-Saxon scholar, Alchuine, at the direction of his patron, Charlemagne, and was completed during the year 800. The volume (which is now numbered MS. Add., 10,546), consists of 449 leaves of fine vellum, measuring 20 inches by 144, written in double columns of small Caroline minuscule characters, with fifty or fifty-two lines on a full page. |