sentences:  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 enabled the work to be reconstructed.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.