Aldhelm and Old St Peter's, Rome

Aldhelm of Malmesbury was one of the most prolific and influential scholars of early Anglo-Saxon England. His contemporary fame rested partly on the fact that he had been a pilgrim to Rome. This article presents new evidence for Aldhelm's literary debt to the epigraphy of early Christian Rome. Two ninth-century manuscripts from Reims contain an anthology of six epigrams which derive largely from verse inscriptions in Old St Peter's. Aldhelm quoted two of these, de Petro and de Andrea , almost verbatim in his Carmina Ecclesiastica . It is likely that Aldhelm knew these verses from first-hand observation rather than via the pages of a manuscript sylloge

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  Open Access•Patrick Sims-Williams•Anglo-Saxon England•1981

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• Some remnants of Bede's lost Liber Epigrammatum

  Michael Lapidge•The English Historical Review•1975

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