Identifiable books from the pre-Conquest library of Malmesbury Abbey

The Benedictine abbey at Malmesbury in Wiltshire was one of that select group of English houses which could trace its history back to the golden age epitomized and chronicled by Bede. To Bede's older contemporary Aldhelm (ob. c. 709) belongs most of the credit for setting the recently founded community on its feet and for making it a by-word throughout the British Isles for the pursuit of divine and secular learning.2 During his abbacy Malmesbury eclipsed the reputations of the Irish schools and of Hadrian's Canterbury. At only one other point in its long history did the abbey attain a comparable reputation for learning, when it housed the monk William (c. 1095–1143), whose career, intellectual interests and writings were consciously modelled upon the examples of Bede and Aldhelm.

[1]  R. Hunt.  Manuscript evidence for knowledge of the poems of Venantius Fortunatus in late Anglo-Saxon England , 1979, Anglo-Saxon England.

[2]  P. J. Lucas.  ON THE INCOMPLETE ENDING OF DANIEL AND THE ADDITION OF CHRIST AND SATAN TO MS JUNIUS 11 , 1979 .

[3]  Linda L. Brownrigg.  Manuscripts containing English decoration 871–1066, catalogued and illustrated: a review , 1978, Anglo-Saxon England.

[4]  M. Winterbottom.  Aldhelm's prose style and its origins , 1977, Anglo-Saxon England.

[5]  D. Sheerin.  John Leland and Milred of Worcester , 1977 .

[6]  E. Temple.  Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, 900-1066 , 1976 .

[7]  M. Lapidge.  Some remnants of Bede's lost Liber Epigrammatum , 1975 .

[8]  R. Thomson.  The Reading of William of Malmesbury , 1975 .

[9]  James Hutton,et al.  Poetry and poetics from ancient Greece to the Renaissance: Studies in honor of James Hutton , 1975 .

[10]  C. M. Kauffmann.  Romanesque Manuscripts, 1066-1190 , 1975 .

[11]  D. Parsons.  Tenth-century studies : essays in commemoration of the millennium of the Council of Winchester and Regularis concordia , 1975 .

[12]  Terence Alan Martyn Bishop,et al.  English Caroline minuscule , 1971 .

[13]  M. Lapidge,et al.  Aldhelm, The Prose Works , 1970 .

[14]  J. Ogilvy.  Books known to the English, 597-1066 , 1967 .

[15]  K. Galbraith.  The Iconography of the Biblical Scenes at Malmesbury Abbey , 1965 .

[16]  G. Duby.  Education et culture dans l'Occident barbare , 1964, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales.

[17]  J. Godfrey.  The Church in Anglo-Saxon England , 1962 .

[18]  C. Dodwell.  The great Lambeth Bible , 1959 .

[19]  Alfred Brotherston Emden,et al.  A biographical register of the University of Oxford, to A.D. 1500 , 1957 .

[20]  H. Dondaine.  Le corpus dionysien de l'Université de Paris au XIIIe siècle , 1953 .

[21]  M.P.I. van den Hout.  Clavis Patrum Latinorum , 1952 .

[22]  D. Dekkers.  Note sur les fragments récemment découverts de Tertullien , 1952 .

[23]  G. Lieftinck.  Un Fragment De De Spectaculis De Tertullien Provenant D'Un Manuscrit Du Neuvieme Siecle , 1951 .

[24]  H. Thoma.  The Oldest Manuscript of Juvencus , 1950, The Classical Review.

[25]  M. Laistner.  Antiochene Exegesis in Western Europe During the Middle Ages , 1947, Harvard Theological Review.

[26]  H. H. King,et al.  A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts , 1943 .

[27]  A. W. Reed.  JOHN CLEMENT AND HIS BOOKS , 1926 .

[28]  M. Roger.  L'enseignement des lettres classiques d'Ausone à Alcuin , 1905 .