Works of Bede
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Description
- Title
- Works of Bede
- Creator
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
- Published / Created
- [between 1100 and 1150].
- Publication Place
- Southern Low Countries (Tournai?)
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of The Venerable Bede, 1) De templo Salomonis; 2) In librum Regum quaestiones XXX; 3) Aliquot quaestionum liber; 4) In librum Tobiae allegorica expositio; 5) excerpts from Homeliae evangelii
- Description
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Script: Copied by several hands in Pregothic script.
Decoration: Art. 1 is undecorated. Elsewhere, red headings and incipit and explicit formulae (sometimes in Capitalis); on some pages, red stroking of majuscules; red versals and plain, generally 2-line, initials; some large Romanesque initials, or space for large initials, anywhere between 5 and 13 lines.
Binding: 19th century light brown calfskin, silver-tooled with a large, diamond-shaped central motif and four smaller motifs in the corners. Each cover is framed in dark brown leather, blind-tooled with several rolls. The spine, with five raised bands, is partly gold-tooled and partly blind-tooled.
In Latin. - Provenance
- Belonged to (and was probably produced in) the Benedictine abbey of St. Martin at Tournai, as ownership inscriptions in 13th century documentary cursive script indicate. Ex libris Estelle Doheny (1875-1958). Ex libris J.R. Ritman of Amsterdam, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. Ex libris The Stock and Reference Library of H.P. Kraus, New York. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund. For more information see catalog cards filed in the collection.
- Extent
- ff. ii + 75 + ii : 310 x 220 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 1075
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Netherlands 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem). - Subject (Topic)
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Allegorical interpretations
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem).
Bible > Allegorical interpretations
Bible. O.T. Apocrypha. Tobit
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Netherlands > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Doheny, Estelle, 1875-1958 > Bookplate
Ritman, J.R. > Bookplate
Krause, H.P. > Bookplate
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- The Venerable Bede, Works of Bede. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 9894394
- Object ID (OID)
- 10621969
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