When Aldhelm, who became Bishop of Sherborn in the year 705, went to Canterbury to be consecrated by his old friend and companion Berthwold (_pariter literis studuerant, pariterque viam religionis triverant_--together they had studied literature and together they had followed the path of religion), the Archbishop kept him there many days, taking counsel with him about the affairs of his diocese. Hearing of the arrival during this time of ships at Dover, he went there to inspect their unloading and to see if they had brought anything in his way (_si quid forte commodum ecclesiastico usui attulissent nautæ qui e Gallico sinu in Angliam provecti librorum copiam apportassent_--to see whether the ships which had arrived from the French coast had brought, with the books which formed a part of their cargoes, any volumes of value for the work of the Church). Among many other books he saw one containing the whole of the Old and New Testaments, which book he bought, and which, according to William of Malmesbury, who in the twelfth century wrote the life of Aldhelm, was at that time still preserved at Sherborn.[135] The great Bible given by King Offa, in 780, to the church at Worcester is described in the chronicle of Malmesbury as _Magnam Bibliam_.[136] As before indicated, however, the common name of this time for a collection of the Scriptures was not _Biblia_ but _Bibliotheca_. In a return of their property which the monks of St. Riquier at Centule made in the year 831, by order of Louis the Débonnaire, we find, among a considerable quantity of books: _Bibliotheca integra ubi continentur libri lxxii., in uno volumine_ (a complete Bible, in which seventy-two books are comprised in one volume), and also _Bibliotheca dispersa in voluminibus xiv._[137] (a Bible divided into fourteen volumes).