Giovanni Battista de Rossi was an Italian archaeologist, famous even outside his field for rediscovering early Christian catacombs. He collaborated with Wilhelm Henzen and Theodor Mommsen in the compi
Giovanni Battista Carlo De Rossi Imagines philologorum
Ceolfrith
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Saint Ceolfrid was an Anglo-Saxon Christian abbot and saint. He is best known as the warden of Bede from the age of seven until his death in 716. He was the Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and a
Giovanni Battista de Rossi (archaeologist)
…the Codex Amiatinus was believed to be Italian in origin. It was only at that time that de Rossi discovered that the original inscription was that of Ceolfrith of the English. Giovanni Battista de Rossi died at Castel Gandolfo on 20 September 1894…
Remains of St Paul's Monastery, Jarrow, where Ceolfrid was Abbot.
One of the few surviving pages from the Ceolfrid Bible, one of three versions of the Vulgate Bible created in Wearmouth and Jarrow under Ceolfrid at the turn of the eighth century. British Library, London.
Portrait of Ezra from the Codex Amiatinus in the Laurentian Library, Florence.