Richard d.Aungerville, Of Bury. Fragments Of His Register, And Other Documents (Classic Reprint) 12+

📘 Excerpt from Richard d'Aungerville, Of Bury: Fragments Of His Register, And Other DocumentsThis book is collection of documents issued by Bishop Richard of Bury, together with papers referring to his episcopate or bearing ou his life. An incomplete affair it inust be; for though Bury made a more perfect series of Acts of J urisdiotion than had been done in any previous era, still, after all searching, we have only scanty result. Fot he fell absolutely out of remembrance; his fine collection of mss., more than all the bishops of England possessed, was scattered abroad. It has beèn' stated repeatedly but wrongly that' he gave or' left them tb the University of Oxford, or to the Durhàm College there; it is plain that they never found their way thither, whatever might have been his wishesl His Episcopal Register seems to have perished, for of. The eleven and half years of his episcopate there survive only two fragments, which do not cover whole year. The famous Philobiblon, an epoch in English literature, was completely neglected till our times; it was not till Mr. E. C. Thomas, of Trinity College, Oxford, issued his admirable edition in 1888, that the book came' again to be thought about. Even then, the authorship of it was disputed. It is argued that Bury did not himself write the book but entrusted it to Holcot, the author of treatise super scientia, and one of Bury's closest literary friends. The theory is that Holcot, out of affec tion càlled it Bury&...