P uocatusλpts fegregatur in euange lum di Prome quifquelegafuerfus orare me no al cume di coregoustine fine vale. xpfeuerwaf anmreffurt quite famoniudo fpfaquaetfanguifeccrefunfunt Suefamon whominuaccipimus unera dedonif accipescaruif 9us pater albinur deuotopectore fupplex Promequifq; legar uerfuforare memento 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 1434, written in double columns of small Caroline minuscule characters, with fifty or fifty-two lines on a full page. |