The library of Alcuin’s York
Mary Garrison
The evidence for York Minster's library in Anglo-Saxon England might just as aptly be compared to a long beam of light materials portrait it illuminates history, early medieval intellectual history and the social world unique book collection learning more generally. This was almost entirely from distinctive perspective Alcuin York. There are testimonies about York's remarkable eighth-century scattered through various contemporary writings, letters poems. Shortly before his death 780, Ælberht assigned Alcuin. Ælberht-Alcuin sufficiently well stocked equip fleeing missionary churchman generously - with copia librorum. Alcuin's poem several ways. poem's date intended readership bear on interpretation its educational bibliographical reminiscences. is scant books ninth century; what there points continuity, even if at lower level.
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