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“The discriminating bibliophile who browsed through the contents of the Palace library about 790 and jotted down the titles of the pagan works which caught his eye thus becomes one of the most arresting figures in the whole story and his scrappy little list one of the most important documents in the transmission of classical texts” (xxv).

--L.D. Reynolds, Texts and Transmission: a survey of the Latin classics