The original Codex Grandior commissioned by Cassiodorus is now lost.
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From the time of Cassiodorus, copyists and printers have increasingly favored the production of single-
volume Bibles.
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Cassiodorus' single- volume Bible must have fascinated Ceolfrith and his monks, who were likely attracted by its ease of
use.
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The scientific studies, thanks to which the
Benedictines rendered so many services to the preservation of classical literature, were introduced only by Cassiodorus.
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When he was about 60 or 70 years of age, Cassiodorus founded the Vivarium monastery and library near his home in Squillace, Calabria.