>To follow the depiction by Antonello da Messina, St Jerome appears to be the proud owner of about ten books in all! It's a fictional depiction some thousand y

>To follow the depiction by Antonello da Messina, St Jerome appears to be the proud owner of about ten books in all! It's a fictional depiction some thousand years after the life of St. Jerome. How is this supposed to be an argument? From what we know St. Jerome spent much of his life traveling between ancient libraries, collecting, reading and comparing a large number of different gospels (both canonical and apocryphal). He also had access to texts which are now considered lost, like the Gospel of the Hebrews.