Work

Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. IE TCD MS 492

Alternative title

• Epistola De Obitu Bedae
• Beda, etc.
• About the progress of Christianity in England
• Bede’s death song
• Notationes De Sanctis Qui In Anglia Requiescunt

Shelf Mark/Reference Number

• IE TCD MS 492 ; former shelfmarks: E.2.23; 230; B.3; B.2.4

Location

• Manuscripts & Archives Research Library, Trinity College Dublin

Creator

• Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735, Author
• Cuthbert, Saint, Bishop of Lindisfarne, approximately 635-687, Author

Rights statement

• Copyright The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Images are available for single-use academic application only. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

Copyright status

• Public domain

Date Created

• circa 1130-1169

Language

• English, Middle (1100-1500)
• Latin

Abstract

• IE TCD MS 492 is a copy of the Venerable Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (folios 1-175v), which relates the history of English Christianity. Also present are Cuthberth’s Epistola De Obitu Bedae (Bede’s death song, folios 175v-177); a tract about the progress of Christianity in England (folios 177-178v); and Notationes De Sanctis Qui In Anglia Requiescunt (folios 178v-180). Dates from around 1130-1169.Latin and Middle English. Script is in a single hand; some decoration and ornaments are present in gold and colours. The binding was executed for the College around 1830 in blind-tooled leather.Please see the Manuscripts & Archives Research Library’s catalogue entry for the manuscript here:https://manuscripts.catalogue.tcd.ie/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=IE+TCD+MS+492&pos=1

Subject

• Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
• Great Britain--Church history--449-1066--Sources
• Christianity--England--History--To 1500--Sources
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Ireland--Dublin

Keyword

• Unassigned

Format

• illuminated manuscripts
• Manuscripts

Resource type

• text

Medium

• ink

Support

• leather
• parchment (animal material)

Culture

• English

Digital Object Id

• MS492_001

Source

• 0135629

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In Collection:

• Medieval Latin Manuscripts

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