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In 893, Asser wrote a biography of Alfred, called the [[#The Life of King Alfred|''Life of King Alfred'']]. The manuscript survived to modern times in only one copy, which was part of the [[Cotton library]]. That copy was destroyed in a fire in 1731, but transcriptions that had been made earlier, together with material from Asser's work which was included by other early writers, have made it possible to reconstruct the work. The biography is the main source of information about Alfred's life and provides far more information about Alfred than is known about any other early English ruler. Asser assisted Alfred in his translation of [[Gregory the Great]]'s ''[[Pastoral Care]]'', and possibly with other works.