Editing Ceolfrith (section)

== The Codex Amiatinus Project ==
[[File:CodxAmiatinusFolio5rEzra.jpg|thumb|250px|Portrait of [[Ezra]] from the [[Codex Amiatinus]] in the [[Laurentian Library]], Florence.]]
The [[Codex Amiatinus]] is the oldest manuscript with a complete text of the [[Vulgate]]. The Codex Amiatinus is described as a brilliant display of the beauty that is Early British, Pre-[[Carolingian Renaissance|Carolingian]] [[calligraphy]].{{whom|date=April 2025}} It used as a model the (''[[Vetus Latina]]'') [[Codex Grandior]] of [[Cassiodorus]], which Coelfrith had obtained in Rome.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Meyvaert |first1=Paul |title=Bede, Cassiodorus, and the Codex Amiatinus |journal=Speculum |date=1996 |volume=71 |issue=4 |pages=827–883 |doi=10.2307/2865722 |jstor=2865722 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2865722 |issn=0038-7134|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

The composition of the Vulgate was part of the project to expand Wearmouth and Jarrow's extensive library, and Ceolfrid ordered three copies of this Bible manuscript to be composed; one of which would be dedicated to the Pope Gregory II, while the other two copies were meant to stay in the respective churches of Wearmouth and Jarrow. There are no official records that state that the text made it to Rome. It is said that instead, it made its way into Florence, where it was presented by the Lombard Abbot Peter to the [[Abbazia di San Salvatore]] at [[Mount Amiata]] in [[Tuscany]]. It is believed that he changed the dedicatory note inscribed within the leaves as donated to the monastery. This occurred in the 9th century. The document remained at Mount Amiata until 1786, when it was relocated to the [[Laurentian Library]] in Florence. There is some dispute over what consisted of this Vulgate Codex. Over the past few hundred years, additional leaves that appear to be related to this text have been located in Britain, some having been used as book wrappings. These new discoveries have led scholars to question the total length of the codex, as there are still fragments missing from it today.