Selections by Bede, including his Historia ecclesiastica (DS9655) (Q42969)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618807, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861880, mssHM 35300)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Selections by Bede, including his Historia ecclesiastica (DS9655) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618807, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861880, mssHM 35300) |
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Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
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Elyot, Robert, -1499
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Syon Abbey (Isleworth, London, England)
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Cathedral Church of St. James (Bury St. Edmunds, England)
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Manicules (Provenance)--15th century
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England--Church history--449-1066
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Bible. Catholic Epistles--Commentaries
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Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
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between 1285 and 1460
1285Gregorian
1460Gregorian
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Extent: ff. i (contemporary parchment) + 170 : parchment ; 187 x 261 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Composite volume in two parts: 1) Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, along with a few other short works, written in the middle of fifteenth century in England; and 2) several works by Bede including Expositio Actuum Apostolorum and In epistolas VII catholicas, written in England at the end of the thirteenth century.
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Part 1. Span folios: ff. 1-110v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-138 148(-7, 8). Catchwords in the innermost corner, sometimes enclosed by a scroll (ff. 32v, 40v); quires and leaves signed in letters and roman numerals. Ruled space, 182 x 125 mm; 2 columns of 32-40 lines, ruled in ink, usually frame only; pricking occasionally visible in the upper and outer margins. Written in an anglicana...
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Part 1. Decoration: 5- to 3-line parted red and blue initials; full red and blue cascade border and red flourishing on f. 1; bracket borders in the same style for beginnings of other books (omitted for Book 4). 2-line blue initials with red flourishing; 1-line initials alternating red and blue in the chapter lists. Running headlines and chapter numbers added by a contemporary hand.
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Part 2. Span folios: ff. 111-170v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 120 220 320; note, however, that all the leaves appear to be singletons, stitched together and reinforced by a parchment strip wrapped around each gathering. Quires 1 and 2 signed in arabic numerals on the last leaf verso. Ruled space, 186 x 138 mm; 2 columns of 40-45 lines written above the top line; ruled in brown crayon and in...
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Part 2. Decoration: 5- to 2-line blue initials with red flourishing, different from those in pt. I. The rubrics and some underscoring in the same red as the flourishing. Instructions to the rubricator in crayon. In the upper margin of f. 111 in the hand of the scribe, "Sancti spiritus assit nobis gratia."
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/6/2009.
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Belonged to Robert Elyot, fellow of All Souls College and vice-provost of Eton until his death in 1499. His characteristic profile face brackets and pointing hands occur mainly in pt. II, e.g., on ff. 121v, 124v, 125 (the hands) and on ff. 150, 155v, 164v (the face); these are in the same orange-tinged red ink as some of the underscoring and marginal notes; the faces, hands, underscoring and...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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