https://u888.co.com/ Bennet Biscop, the first abbot of Wearmouth, made five journeys to Rome, and on each occasion returned with a retailer of books for the library. The verses are well known wherein Alcuin describes the intensive library below his charge, and the lengthy list of authors whom he enumerates is superior to that of every other library possessed by both England or France in the twelfth century, when it was unhappily burnt. Of of France the principal had been these of Fleury, of Cluny, of St Riquier and of Corbie. In England the principal collections have been these of Canterbury, York, Wearmouth, Jarrow, Whitby, Glastonbury, Croyland, Peterborough and Durham.