a in uno volumine.
Item Mathaeus et Marcus in uno volumine.
Johannes et Lucas in uno volumine.
Epistolae Pauli glosatae Apocalypsis et Epistolae Canonicae
glosata in uno volumine.
Sententiae Petri Lombardi.
Item Sententiae ejusdem.
Sermones Bernardi Abbatis Clarevallensis.
Decreta Gratiani.
Item Decreta Gratiani.
Summa Ruffini de Decretis.
Summa Johannes Fuguntini de Decretis.
Decretales Epistolae.
Item Decretales Epistolae.
Item Decretales Epistolae cum summa sic incipiente; Olim.
Institutiones Justiniani cum autenticis et Infortiatio Digestum
vetus.
Tres partes cum digesto novo.
Summa Placentini.
Totum Corpus Juris in duobus voluminibus.
Arismetica.
Epistolae Senecae cum aliis Senecis in uno volumine.
Martialis totus et Terentius in uno volumine.
Morale dogma philosophorum.
Gesta Alexandri et Liber Claudii et Claudiani.
Summa Petri Heylae de Grammatica, cum multis allis rebus
in uno volumine.
Gesta Regis Henrica secunda et Genealogiae ejus.
Interpretatione Hebraicorum nominum.
Libellus de incarnatione verbi. Liber Bernardi Abbatis ad
Eugenium papam.
Missale.
Vitae Sancti Thomae Martyris.[228]
Miracula ejusdem in quinque voluminibus.
Liber Richardi Plutonis, qui dicitur, unde Malum Meditationes
Anselmi.
Practica Bartholomaei cum multis allis rebus in uno volumine.
Ars Physicae Pantegni, et practica ipsius in uno volumine.
Almazor et Diascoridis de virtutibus herbarum.
Liber Dinamidiorum et aliorum multorum in uno volumine.
Libellus de Compoto.
Sixty volumes! perhaps containing near 100 separate works, and all added
to the library in the time of one abbot; surely this is enough to
controvert the opinion that the monks cared nothing for books or
learning, and let not the Justin, Seneca, Martial, Terence, and Claudian
escape the eye of the reader, those monkish bookworms did care a little,
it would appear, for classical literature. But what will he say to the
fine Bibles that crown and adorn the list? The two complete copies of the
_Vetus et Novum Testamentum_, and the many glossed portions of the sacred
writ, reflect honor upon the Christian monk, and placed him conspicuously
among the bible students of the middle ages; proving too, that while he
could esteem the wisdom of Seneca, and the vivacity of Terence, and feel
a deep interest in the secular history of his own times, he did not lose
sight of the fountain of all knowledge, but gav
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