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> Ceolfrid is also credited with inadvertently preserving the only > manuscript > produced at Monkwearmouth/Jarrow which survived the Middle Ages > intact by > personally transporting it to Italy. This is, of course, the Codex > Amiatinus. For other manuscripts produced at Wearmouth/Jarrow see M.B. Parkes, "The Scriptorium of Wearmouth Jarrow", Jarrow Lecture 1982. They are I think all fragmentary, so this does not contradict what our correspondent says about surviving the Middle Ages intact. Oriens. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%