ds conspicuous on the list, as the reader will perceive.

THE BIBLE.
Pliny's Natural History.
Cassiodorus upon the Psalms.
Three great Missals.
Two Reading Books.
A Breviary for the Infirmary.
Jerome upon Jeremiah and Isaiah.
Origen upon the Old Testament.
Origen's Homilies.
Origen upon the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans.
Jerome upon the Epistles to the Galatians, to Ephesians, to
Titus, and to Philemon.
Lives of the Fathers.
Collations of the Fathers.
Breviary for the Hospital.
An Antiphon.
Pars una Moralium.
Cyprian's Works.
Register.
Liber dictus Paradisus.
Jerome against Jovinian.
Ambrose against Novatian.
Seven Volumes of the Passions of the Saints for the circle
of the whole year.
Lives of the Caesars.
Acts of the Britons.
Acts of the English.
Acts of the Franks.
Pascasius.
Radbert on the Body and Blood of the Lord.
Book of the Abbot of Clarevalle _de Amando Deo_.
Hugo de S. Victore de duodecim gradibus Humilitatis et de Oratione.
Physiomania Lapedarum et Liber Petri Alsinii in uno volumine.
Rhetoric, two volumes.
Quintilian _de Causes_, in one volume.
Augustine upon the Lord's Prayer and upon the Psalm
_Miserero mei Deus_.
A Benedictional.
Decreta Cainotensis Episcopi.
Jerome upon the Twelve Prophets, and upon the Lamentations of Jeremiah.
Augustine upon the Trinity.
Augustine upon Genesis.
Isidore's Etymology.
Paterius.
Augustine on the Words of our Lord.
Hugo on the Sacraments.
Cassinus on the Incarnation of our Lord.
Anselm's _Cui Deus Homo_.[316]

The reader, I think, will allow that the catalogue enumerates but little
unsuitable for a christian's study; he may not admire the principles
contained in some of them, or the superstition with which many of them
are loaded; but after all there were but few volumes among them from
which a Bible reading monk might not have gleaned something good and
profitable. These books were transcribed about the end of the thirteenth
century, after the catalogue of the monastic library mentioned above was
compiled.

Walter Taunton, elected in the year 1322, gave to the library several
volumes; and his successor, Adam Sodbury,[317] elected in the same year,
increased it with a copy of the whole Bible,[318] a Scholastic history,
Lives of Sai