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Aelfric of Eynsham, Abbot (955 - 1010)

Alias Aelfricus Abbas (Alias)

Aelfric was an abbot and Old English writer who wrote many works on the history of Christianity. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/187 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ælfric_of_Eynsham References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Mr. le Long in his Bibliotheca Sacra (Part 2d. pag. 310) mentions Fragmenta Biblica ex Veteri & Novo Testamento, Saxonice, a Gul. Lisle edita 4. Lond. 1638. The Title is, A Saxon Treatise concerning the Old and New Testament, written about the Time of K. Edgar, by Ælfricus Abbas, 1623, 4to. Of which I have also the other Edition 1638, entitled, Divers ancient Monuments in the Saxon Tongue, written seven hundred Years ago, shewing, that both the Old and New Testament, the Lord's Prayer, and the Creed, were then used in the Mother-Tongue, &c. whereunto is added a 2d Edition out of Ælfric's Homilies, of a Testimony of Antiquity touching the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of our Lord. Of which here is also the former Edition in 8vo. Printed by John Day, with an Attestation subscribed by Archbishop Math. Parker, and fourteen Bishops.