Ælfric’s library
Malcolm Godden
Ælfric of Eynsham was a prolific writer. One important question about the nature resources available to him in Cerne or is what extent he relied on collections excerpts abridgements, whether compiled earlier by others extracted himself visits other libraries for his own future use, and did not have access full texts library. He evidently made use two Latin Julian Toledo's Prognosticon Alcuin's De animae ratione, which appear manuscript containing associated with him. For homilies saints' lives heavily substantial relevant texts. Foremost these vast homiliary Paul Deacon. used just hundred items from collection compiling Catholic Homilies later homiletic collections, choosing mainly work (or attributed to) Augustine, Gregory Bede.
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