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Above all, Corbie was renowned for its library which was assembled from as far as Italy, and for its Scriptorium ; it is recognized as an important center for the transmission of the works of Antiquity to the Middle Ages . An inventory (perhaps 11th century) lists the Church history of Hegesippus , now lost, among other extraordinary treasures. In the scriptorium at Corbie the clear and legible hand known as Carolingian Minuscule was developed {Link without Title} . Among students of Tertullian , the library is of interest as it contained a number of unique copies of Tertullian's works, the so-called ''corpus Corbiense'' and included some of his unorthodox Montanist treatises, as well as two works by Novation issued Pseudepigraphically under Tertullian's name. The origin of this group of non-orthodox texts has not satisfactorily been identified. "Monks irritated by the interference of secular bishops may have found these works of Tertullian were congenial company! Perhaps this explains why such anti-establishment works were preserved". {Link without Title} Among students of medieval architecture and engineering, such as are preserved in the notebooks of Villard De Honnecourt , Corbie is of interest as the center of renewed interest in geometry and surveying techniques, both theoretical and practical, as they had been transmitted from Euclid through the ''Geometria'' of Boethius and works by Cassiodorus (Zenner). The Abbey Of Corvey in Saxony was founded from Corbie, about 820. One of Corbie's scholars was , the father of Paleography had been a monk at Corbie. In July, 1658, he was transferred to the famous Abbey, where he occupied his time in the study of antiquities, while holding successively the offices of porter, of ''depositarius'', and of Cellarer , before he was transferred to the wider intellectual world that the Abbey Of St-Germain-des-Prés offered. In 1638 400 Mss were transferred to the library of the monastery of s were obtained by a Russian diplomat, Petrus Dubrowsky, and sent to St. Petersburg . Other Corbie Mss are at the '' Bibliothèque Nationale ''. Today the commune that grew up around the abbey's protective walling is the small city of Corbie (6,000 inhabitants) in the Département Of Somme (Picardie, France). EXTERNAL LINKS
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