Ceolfrith
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Saint Ceolfrid (or Ceolfrith, , also Geoffrey; c. 642 – 716) was an Anglo-Saxon Christian abbot and saint. He is best known as the warden of Bede from the age of seven until his death in 716. He was the Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and a major contributor to the project to produce the Codex Amiatinus Bible. He died in Burgundy while en route to deliver a copy of the codex to Pope Gregory II in Rome.
Saint Ceolfrid (or Ceolfrith, , also Geoffrey; c. 642 – 716) was an Anglo-Saxon Christian abbot and saint. He is best known as the warden of Bede from the age of seven until his death in 716. He was the Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and a major contributor to the project to produce the Codex Amiatinus Bible. He died in Burgundy while en route to deliver a copy of the codex to Pope Gregory II in Rome.
Further reading
Davis, Ruby, Bede's Early Readings, as appearing in Speculum Vol.8, No.2, 1933. PP.179–195. Anon., "The Anonymous Life of Ceolfrith," in Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow, ed. and trans. Christopher Grocock and I. N. Wood (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2013). Anon., Life of Ceolfrid, Abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow. As translated by D.S. Boutflower. London: Sunderland Hills & Company, 1912. Pgs 10,56,57. Bede, Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow As appearing in The Medieval Sourcebook * Marsden, Richard, The Text of Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Book 15 of Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England Bell, H.I, Leaves of an Early Bible Manuscript. As appearing in The British Museum Quarterly, Vol.12, No.2 April 1938, Pp. 39–40 Laistner, M.L.W, Bede as a Classical and Patristic Scholar As appearing in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fourth series, Vol. 33, (1933), Pp. 69–94 Lowe, E.A. The Uncial Gospel Leaves attached to the Utrecht Psalter As appearing in The Art Bulletin, Vol.34, No.3 (September 1952) McGurk, Patrick An Anglo-Saxon Bible fragment of the Late 8th Century As appearing in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 25, No. 1/2 (January - June, 1962), pp. 18–34
External links
[https://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/05/the-ceolfrith-bible.html The Ceolfrith Bible, Additional MS 45025, British Library
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