A similar instance is noted in the chronicles of the monastery of St. Wandrille. The Abbot Wandregisil sent his nephew Godo to Rome in 657, and Godo brought back with him as a present from the Pope Vitalian, not only valuable relics, but many volumes of the sacred Scriptures containing both the New and the Old Testament.[315] During the time of the Abbot Austrulf (747-753) a chest was thrown up by the sea on the shore. It contained relics and also a _codicem pulcherrimum_, or beautiful manuscript, containing the four gospels, _Romana Littera Optime Scriptum_. This term _Romana Littera_ has been previously referred to as indicating a special script which had been adopted in Rome by the earlier instructors for sacred writings. Alcuin relates of the Archbishop Ælbert of York (766-780): _Non semel externas peregrino tramite terras, Jam peragravit ovans, Sophiæ deductus amore, Si quid forte novi librorum seu studiorum,_ _Quod secum ferret, terris reperiret in illis. Hic quoque Romuleam venit devotus ad urbem._[316] (More than once he has travelled joyfully through remote regions and by strange roads, led on by his zeal for knowledge, and seeking to discover in foreign lands novelties in books or in studies which he could take back with him. And this zealous student journeyed to the city of Romulus.) During the Italian expeditions of the German Emperors, books were from time to time brought back to Germany. Certain volumes referred to by Pez as having been in the Library at Passau, in 1395, contain the inscription _isti sunt libri quos Roma detulimus_. Wattenbach finds record of an organised manuscript business in Verona as early as 1338,[317] and of a more important trade in manuscripts being carried on in Milan at the same time. In the fourteenth century, Richard de Bury speaks of buying books for his library from Rome. The references to this early manuscript business in Italy are, however, so fragmentary that it is difficult to determine how far the works secured were the remnants of old libraries or collections, or how far they were the productions of scribe work-shops engaged in manifolding copies for sale.