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THE ALCHUINE BIBLE, now found in the British Museum.
(Anglo-Saxon, 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 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 completed in the year 800.

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 1434, written in double columns of small Caroline minuscule characters, with fifty or fifty-two lines on a full page.

THE

UNIVERSAL ANTHOLOGY

A COLLECTION OF THE BEST LITERATURE, ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN,
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES

EDITED BY

RICHARD GARNETT

KEEPER OF PRINTED BOOKS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON, 1851 TO 1899