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Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
Title
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.
Created
England, [ca. 1375-1400]
Physical Description
88 l.: parchment ; 320 x 230 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
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.
Binding: original oak boards covered in pink doeskin; remains of clasps.
In Latin.
Provenance
Ex libris H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
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.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
October 14, 2014
References
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 Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Takamiya MS 62). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Takamiya MS 62). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 14th century.
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