Amator
Scripturarum_ affixed to a monkish name in the latter part of the
fifteenth century.

FOOTNOTES:

[215] Gough's Hist. Croyland in Bibl. Top. Brit. xi. p. 3.

[216] Inguph. in Gale's Script. tom. i. p. 53.

[217] "Debit iste Abbas Egebricus communi bibliothecae clanstralium
monachorum magna volumina diversorum doctorum originalia numero
quadraginta; minora vero volumina de diversae tractatibus et
historiis, quae numerum centenarium excedibant." Ingul. p. 53.

[218] The fire occurred in 1091. Ingulphus relates with painful
minuteness the progress of the work of destruction, and enumerates
all the rich treasures which those angry flames consumed. I should
have given a longer account of this event had not the Rev. Mr.
Maitland already done so in his interesting work on the "_Dark
Ages_."

[219] Gale's Remin. Ang. Scrip. i. p. 98.

[220] Ingulph. ap. Gale i. p. 25.

[221] See Gunter's Peterborough, suppl. 263.

[222] Hugo Candid, p. 31; Tamer Bib. Brit. et Hib. p. 175. Candidus
says, "Flos literaris disciplina, torrens eloquentiae, decus et norma
rerum divinarum et secularium."

[223] Hugo Candid. ap. Sparke, Hist. Ang. Scrip. p. 41. Gunter's
Peterboro, p. 15, ed. 1686.

[224] Hugo Candid. p. 42.

[225] Leland de Scrip. Brit. p. 217.

[226] Published by Hearne, 2 vol. 8vo. _Oxon._ 1735.

[227] Rt. Swap. ap. Sparke, p. 97. "Erat. enin literarum scientiae
satis imbutus; regulari disciplina optime instructus; sapientia
seculari plenissime eruditus."

[228] Swapham calls this "Egregium volumen," p. 98.

[229] Now preserved in the library of the Society of Antiquaries.

[230] Gunter, Peterborough, p. 29.

[231] Ibid, p. 37.

[232] Walter de Whytlesse apud Sparke, p. 173.

[233] Gunter's Hist. of Peterborough, p. 259.

[234] At any rate, we find about thirty volumes of Ovid's works
enumerated, and several copies of "de Arte Amandi," and "de Remedis
Amoris."

[235] Let the reader examine Leland's Collect., and the Catalogues
printed in Hunter's Tract on Monastic Libraries. See also Catalogue
of Canterbury Library, MS. Cottonian Julius, c. iv. 4., in the
British Museum.

[236] Printed by Nichols, in Appendix to Hist. of Leicester, from a
MS. Register. It contains almost as fine a collection of the
classics and fathers as that at Peterborough, just noticed,
Aristotle, Vir