The library of Byrhtferth
Michael Lapidge|Richard Gameson
The fenland abbey of Ramsey was founded in Anglo-Saxon England 966. Fifty years later its most famous native son, the monk Byrhtferth able to draw on resources a library containing slightly excess 100 titles. search for books belonging early phases Ramsey's is thrown back corpus writings, Latin and Old English, by Byrhtferth. These include computistical writings (a Computus, Enchiridion, an introduction same Computus ), hagiography (Vita S. Oswaldi Vita Ecgwini), history (Historia regum), as well vast collectaneum excerpts, classical, patristic Carolingian, assembled illustrate two treatises Bede (De natura rerum De temporum ratione), known Glossae Bridferti Bedam. An astronomical text which apparently brought Abbo quoted several occasions Astronomica Hyginus.
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