Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

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Title: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
Creator: Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
Contributor: Nennius, active 796.
Published / Created: [ca. 1375-1400]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript volume, in a single hand, containing the text of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, followed by the text of the Historia brittoum of Nennius; a brief biography of Merlin; and Sybilline prophecies
Description: In Latin.
Numerous marginal notes in contemporary and later hands.
Bound with: parchment leaf of accounts kept by Robert de Staynford, steward of Lady Idoyne Percy, wife of Henry, Lord Percy (d. 1365).
Laid in: manuscript fragment, on paper, of a contract, in English (ca. 1574), formerly the back pastedown.
Layout: single columns of 42 lines.
Script: gothic text hand.
Decoration: Rubricated. Numerous penwork initials and line fillers in red and blue ink. Ten larger illuminated initials, gilt and red and blue ink.
Binding: original oak boards covered in pink doeskin; remains of clasps.
Provenance: Ex libris H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 88 leaves : 320 mm x 230 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval England 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Great Britain
Subject (Name): Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Great Britain
Church history
History
Subjects: Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
Illumination of books and manuscripts, medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Great Britain > Church history > 449-1066
Great Britain > History > To 1066
England > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L. (Harry Lawrence) > Bookplate
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Bookplate

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Citation: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Takamiya MS 62). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.