Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1788 ) summarised the scholarly consensus as being that the Liber Pontificalis was composed by " apostolic librarians and notaries of the viii < sup > th </ sup > and ix < sup > th </ sup > centuries " with only the most recent portion being composed by Anastasius.

* Anastasius Bibliothecarius ( c. 810 – 878 ) – librarian of the Church of Rome, scholar and statesman, sometimes identified as an Antipope

In the 16th century, Onofrio Panvinio attributed the biographies after Damasus until Pope Nicholas I ( 858 – 867 ) to Anastasius Bibliothecarius ; Anastasius continued to be cited as the author into the 17th century, although this attribution was disputed by the scholarship of Caesar Baronius, Ciampini, Schelstrate and others.

The one most commonly cited is Anastasius Bibliothecarius ( d. 886 ), a compiler of Liber Pontificalis, who was a contemporary of the female Pope by the Chronicons dating.

His tables of universal history ( Chronographikon syntomon ), in passages extended and continued, were in great favor with the Byzantines, and were also circulated outside the Empire in the Latin version of Anastasius Bibliothecarius, and also in Slavonic translation.

* Anastasius Bibliothecarius Chronographia tripartita

The events of the trials of Maximus were recorded by Anastasius Bibliothecarius.

* C. de Boor ( Leipzig, 1883 – 85 ), with an exhaustive treatise on the manuscript and an elaborate index, and an edition of the Latin version by Anastasius Bibliothecarius

According to Anastasius Bibliothecarius, George " struggled valiantly against heresy Iconoclasm and received many punishments from the rulers who raged against the rites of the Church ", although the accuracy of the claim is suspect.

* Anastasius Bibliothecarius ( 810-878 )

Anastasius Bibliothecarius ( c. 810 – c. 878 ) was bibliothecarius ( literally " librarian ") and chief archivist of the Roman Catholic Church and also briefly an Antipope.

This article incorporates text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article " Anastasius Bibliothecarius " by J. P. Kirsch, a publication now in the public domain.

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The principal adviser of the two last-named Popes, Anastasius Bibliothecarius, accepted the Byzantine comparison of the pentarchy with the five senses of the human body, but added the qualification that the patriarchate of Rome, which he likened to the sense of sight, ruled the other four.