Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum

Description

Title: Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum
Creator: Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
Published / Created: [ca. 1150]
Publication Place: Eastern France or Germany
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.
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.
Provenance: Acquired from H. P. Kraus as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke in 1968.
Extent: ff. 152, 153 : 254 x 171 (209 x 121) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 12th 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): Church history
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
History
Subjects: Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
Church history
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Great Britain > History > To 1066
Germany > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.