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THE SAXON CATHEDRAL AT CANTERBURY
of a cleric who made a copy of this service book for his own use, which from its size he probably carried about with him. The last five folios of the MS. are palimpsest; the original writing upon them is of the fifth century.
It appears to be likely that this most interesting and important MS. was written in the Monastery of Luxeuil, also a foundation of St. Columbanus in Gaul, and that it was taken to Bobbio by Abbot Bertulfus, who is known to have gone from Luxeuil to Bobbio, where he was Abbot in 639, where the MS. was found.
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