The Dark Ages a Series of Essays Intended to Illustrate the State of Religion a
The Dark Ages a Series of Essays Intended to Illustrate the State of Religion a
Samuel Roffey Maitland
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183. ) * I. Voy. Lit. P. Ii. 79. * II. Voy. Lit. 117- ^ H. Voy. Lit. 182. 234 DESTRUCTIOX OF MSS. [nO. XIV. en manuscrits, que les flammes ont refluit en cendre, avec le religieux qui y etoit entre pour tacher de les sauver ^" — " Ce que nous venons de rapporter nous fait voir que les sij? incendies qui sont arrivees a *S'. Wast, n'ont pas tout consume, et nous font aisement juger des tresors immenses que nous y trouverions, si nous avions tout ce que les flammes nous ont ravi ^" — The abbey of... Loroy, " Qui ayant ete entierement brulee il y a environ quarante ans, n'a conserve aucun de ses anciens monumens ^. " I do not wish to be tedious on this point, but I am irresistibly tempted, first of all, just to allude to the conflagration of the monastery of Teano, near Monte Casino, which was burned, as Leo Marsicanus says, " cum omnibus operibus suis, " in the year 892, because among those " opera " it is said that the original copy of the Rule of St. Benedict perished', and then to give one or two anecdotes respecting what may be called accidental burning of monasteries, as contra-distin- guished from those conflagrations which took place in the wars.
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