Aldhelm’s library

Abstract

The evidence of the Leiden Glossary, which shares with Aldhelm a detailed knowledge of the works of Rufinus, specifically of the Historia ecclesiastica. It has been argued that Aldhelm may have been fostered with the Northumbrian royal family, and at that period may have been educated by Adomnán in Iona. Elsewhere in the composite text of the Epistola ad Acircium Aldhelm gestures towards a strikingly eclectic selection of authors. By contrast, for example, almost all of the echoes of Paulinus of Nola or Alcimus Avitus detected to date come in the later Carmende virginitate. Caelius Sedulius is echoed especially freely, with a particular concentration on Books of the Carmen paschale, and indeed a startling focus on the first 100 lines of the work. Moreover, Aldhelm chooses a rhetorically embellished passage derived from Isidore's Synonyma on this very theme to form the closing words of his Epistola ad Acircium.

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