Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

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Title: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.
Creator: Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Contributor: Bede,--the Venerable, Saint,--673-735.--Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.
Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)--Bookplate.
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: Binding: original oak boards covered in pink doeskin; remains of clasps.
Bound with: parchment leaf of accounts kept by Robert de Staynford, steward of Lady Idoyne Percy, wife of Henry, Lord Percy (d. 1365).
Decoration: Rubricated. Numerous penwork initials and line fillers in red and blue ink. Ten larger illuminated initials, gilt and red and blue ink.
Ex libris H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Laid in: manuscript fragment, on paper, of a contract, in English (ca. 1574), formerly the back pastedown.
Layout: single columns of 42 lines.
Numerous marginal notes in contemporary and later hands.
Script: gothic text hand.
Extent: ff. i + 88 + i: parchment ; 320 x 230 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--England--14th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain--History--To 1066.
Subject (Name): Bede,--the Venerable, Saint,--673-735.--Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.
Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)--Bookplate.
Nennius, active 796.
Subject (Topic): Great Britain--Church history--449-1066.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De G