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1. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
- Creator:
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1375-1400]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 62
- Image Count:
- 189
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- 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., and Binding: original oak boards covered in pink doeskin; remains of clasps.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Great Britain, Church history, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
2. Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum
- Creator:
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1150]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 330
- Image Count:
- 315
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (many holes and repairs) of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by several hands of different appearances, perhaps by scribes of varying ages or at different dates. The scripts range from rounded to angular minuscule., Plain orange initial, 7- to 2-line; heading and chapter notations (in margins) in same shade. Guide-letters and notes for rubricator., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Sewn on three supports laced into wooden boards. The spine is slightly rounded and lined, the lining extending onto the inside of the boards. Covered with white pigskin, blind-tooled. Two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. On the fore-edge of the lower cover is a notation contemporary with binding: "Gesta anglorum bede." Appears to have been bound at the Benedictine abbey of St. Martin of Spanheim in the diocese of Mainz.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
- Subject (Topic):
- Church history, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum
