In 1888 de Rossi discovered that the Codex Amiatinus, the earliest surviving manuscript of the complete Bible in the Latin Vulgate version, was related to the Bibles mentioned by Bede.
V roce 1888 de Rossi zjistil, že Codex Amiatinus, nejstarší dochovaný rukopis úplné bible v latinské verzi  - Vulgate, souvisí s biblemi, o nichž se zmínil Bede.