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One Codex Vercellensis preserved in the cathedral library is a fourth-century purple-stained Vellum Codex , the earliest manuscript of the Old Latin Gospels ("Codex a"), in the usual order of the Western Church— Matthew, John, Luke and Mark. It does not now contain the last twelve verses of the Gospel Of Mark . It is generally believed to have been written under the direction of bishop Eusebius Of Vercelli . It was published by Irico (Milan 1748) and Bianchini (Rome, 1749), and is reprinted in Migne , '' Patrologia Latina '' XII, 9-948; a new edition was brought out by Belsheim (Christiania, 1894). Another, utterly distinct Codex Vercellensis, also preserved in the cathedral library of Vercelli (as Codex CVII) is an '', ''Address of the Soul to the Body'', ''Falseness of Men'', '' Dream Of The Rood '', two poems by Cynewulf , ''Elene'' and ''The Fates of the Apostles'', and a prose '' Life Of Guthlac '' The meticulous Hand Is Anglo-Saxon Square Minuscule . It was found in the library by Friedrich Blume, in 1822, and was first described in his ''Iter Italicum'' (Stettin, 4 vols., 1824-36). The presence of the volume was explained by a hospice catering especially to English pilgrims that was founded by Jacopo Guala-Bicchieri (d. 1227), bishop of Vercelli, who had been papal Legate in England 1216–1218. Unfortunately its presence in Vercelli has been ascertained before that, in the eleventh century. REFERENCES
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