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Works of Bede
Title
Works of Bede.
Created
Southern Low Countries (Tournai?), [between 1100 and 1150].
Physical Description
ff. ii + 75 + ii : parchment ; 310 x 220 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
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.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
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.
Publications
M.L.W. Laistner, H.H. King, A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca, N.Y., 1943), pp. 65, 78, 82, 157.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2011
References
The Venerable Bede, Works of Bede. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
The Venerable Bede, Works of Bede. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Netherlands - 12th century.
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