During the construction of his first monastery at Wearmouth, Biscop appointed Abbot Eosterwini (anglicized as "Easterwine") as his primary Abbot and Coadjutor.
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In 674, Benedict Biscop received a land grant from King Ecgfrith for the explicit purpose of erecting a monastery.
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The Codex Amiatinus is the oldest manuscript with a complete text of the Vulgate.
The only survivor of the three bibles is the Codex Amiatinus, now in Florence, the oldest complete surviving Bible in the world, which was being carried to Rome by Ceolfrith himself when he died in 716.