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
Manuscript fragments, on parchment, from a Quadruplex Psalter, in which the text of each page is arranged in four precisely parallel columns, each containing a different version of the text, with the intention of enabling textual comparison and criticism. Fragment 1 contains portions of Psalms 31 and 32; fragment 2 contains portions of Psalms 38 and 39.
Description:
In Latin and transliterated Greek., Layout: originally 4 columns of 40 lines each., Script:pregothic., and Decoration: rubricated. Small and larger initials also in red ink.