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The Church Fathers · c. 716–725
Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow
The Venerable Bede · c. 673–735
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What it is
The history of his own monastery through its founders, including the book-buying journeys to Rome that built the library Bede worked in.
Why it lasted
The best account anywhere of how a northern monastery assembled a serious library in the eighth century.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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