[154] Bede, B. iv. c. xxvii.

[155] Marked Nero, D. iv. in the Cottonian collection.

[156] The illuminations are engraved in Strutt's _Horda_.

[157] There is prologue to the Canons and Prefaces of St. Jerome and
Eusebius, and also a beautiful calendar written in compartments,
elaborately finished in an architectural style.

[158] He also transcribed the Durham Ritual, recently printed by the
Surtee Society; when Alfred wrote this volume he was with bishop
Alfsige, p. 185, 8vo. _Lond._ 1840.

[159] For an account of this rare gem of Saxon art, see _Selden
Praef. ad. Hist. Angl._ p. 25. _Marshall Observat. in Vers. Sax.
Evang._, 491. _Dibdin's Decameron, p._ lii. _Smith's Bibl. Cotton.
Hist. et Synop._, p. 33.

[160] Simeon of Durham translated by Stevens, p. 87.

[161] Simeon of Durham, by Stevens.

[162] Ep. viii.

[163] Tertia Quinquagina Augustini, marked B. ii. 14.

[164] Surtee publications, vol. i. p. 117.

[165] This catalogue is preserved at Durham, in the library of the
Dean and Chapter, marked B. iv. 24. It is printed in the Surtee
publications, vol. i. p. 1.

[166] "King Stephen was vncle vnto him."--_Godwin's Cat. of
Bishops_, 511.

[167] He died in 1195.--Godwin, p. 735. He gave them also another
Bible in two volumes; a list of the whole is printed in the Surtee
publications, vol. i. p. 118.

[168] Surtee's Hist, of Durham, vol. i. p. xxxii. "He was wonderfull
rich, not onely in ready money but in lands also, and temporall
revenues. For he might dispend yeerely 5000 marks."--_Godwin's Cat.
Eng. Bish._ 4to. 1601, p. 520.

[169] Robert de Graystane's ap. Wharton's Angl. Sacr. p. 748, tom.
i.--_Hutchinson's Durham_, vol. i. p. 244.

[170] Surtee publ. vol. i. p. 121.

[171] Raine's North Durham, p. 85.

[172] Surtee public. vol. 1. p. 39-40.

[173] _Ibid._, vol. i. p. 41.

[174] Chambre Contin. Hist. Dunelm. apud Wharton Angliae Sacra, tom.
i. p. 765.

[175] Lord Campbell's Lives of the Lord Chancellors, vol. i. p. 219.

[176] Absconditus est in Campanili fratrum minorum.--_Chambre ap.
Wharton_, tom. i. p. 765.

[177] In one of his letters Petrarch speaks of De Bury as _Virum
ardentis ingenii_, Pet. ep. 1-3.

[178] Epist. Seniles, lib. xvi. ep. 1.

[179] Foscolo's Essays on Petrarch, p. 151.

[180] Foscolo's Essays on Petrarch, p. 156. Famil. ep. lxxii.

[181]