hand-list of Bede manuscripts

by M. L. W. Laistner

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Published 1943 by Cornell University Press in Ithaca, N.Y .
Written in English

Subjects:

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735 -- Manuscripts -- Bibliography

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Statement	by M. L. W. Laistner. With the collaboration of H. H. King.
Genre	Bibliography.
Contributions	King, Henry Hall, 1885-1930.
LC Classifications	Z6616.B4 L3
The Physical Object
Pagination	x, l68p.
Number of Pages	68
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL6455969M
LC Control Number	43016744
OCLC/WorldCa	693294

Bede spent the rest of his life as a monk at Jarrow, first being taught and then teaching to the daily rhythms of monastic rule: for Bede, a mixture of prayer and study. He was ordained as a Deacon aged 19 – at a time when Deacons were supposed to be 25 or over – and a priest aged Exhibition. Switzerland’s illuminated treasures - Sacred and profane manuscripts. To celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the e-codices project, the exhibitions of the Abbey Library of St. Gall and the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny are showcasing many of the highlights of book illumination from more than 15 Swiss libraries.

Gerald Bonner, Gol., Famulus: Essays in Commemoration of the Thirteenth Centenary of the Birth of the Venerable Bede (London, ) M. L. W. Laistner & H. H. King, A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (New York, ) Terry Deary, All about Bede: The life and times of the Venerable Bede AD, (Sunderland, ). The Saint Petersburg Bede (Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, lat. Q. v. I. 18), formerly known as the Leningrad Bede, is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuscript, a near-contemporary version of Bede's 8th century history, the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People).Although not heavily illuminated, it is famous for containing the earliest.

Published on For more than a thousand years all manuscripts were written and illustrated by hand. By the Middle Ages, books were being made by . Bede's Best-loved Book The margin notes we find in Bede's manuscripts illustrate the fact that he was a careful scholar and widely read. Some of the books that influenced him were brought to the Jarrow and Wearmouth monasteries from Rome by Abbot Biscop.

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A Hand-list of Bede Manuscripts. Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press, APA: Laistner, M. W, King, H. H, & Beda Venerabilis, B.

Venerabilis. A hand-list of Bede manuscripts. Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press. Chicago: Laistner, M.

W., H. H King, and Beda Venerabilis. A Hand-List of Bede by: 38 rows Bede's list of his works. English translation. Name of the work in this article. In principium. Looking for books by Bede.

See all books authored by Bede, including Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: A Revised Translation with Introduction, Life, and Notes - Scholar's Choice Edition, and The Age of Bede, and more on Bede has books on Goodreads with ratings.

Bede’s most popular book is Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Despite the importance of, and wide scholarly interest in Bede's works, however, a definitive accounting of the manuscripts of them remains to be completed.

InCornell historian M. Laistner, together with a research assistant, Dr. King, published A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts, which was a first step toward such a definitive.

For manuscripts of Bede's Homilies in general, er and A hand-list of Bede manuscripts (Ithaca, New York, ) pp. ], Easter Saturday [Homeliae evangelii, Book II, 7, in vigilia Paschae (Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina,; pp.

)] and Easter Day [The text comes from Bede's In Lucae evangelium. Yeavering Archive: The Bede Manuscript, book II ch This manuscript page is from Book II, Chapter 14 of the 'History of the English Church and People', which was completed by Bede, a Northumbrian monk and scholar, in The work is our primary historical reference for this period, and Chapter 14 describes the site at Yeavering in particular.

Genre/Form: Catalogs: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Laistner, M.L.W. (Max Ludwig Wolfram), Hand-list of Bede manuscripts. Ithaca, N.Y. 2 M.L.W. Laistner and H.H.

King, A Hand-list of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca, ), p. 1 For the following discussion of the manuscripts, I am indebted to Jones’ introduction to In. Bede / ˈ b iː d / (Old English: Bǣda, Bēda; /3 – 26 May ), also known as Saint Bede, Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Latin: Bēda Venerābilis), was an English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St.

Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles (contemporarily Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey in Tyne and Wear, England).Attributes: The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. Ecclesiastical history, books I, II, III Volume 2 of The Miscellaneous Works of Venerable Bede: In the Original Latin, Collated with the Manuscripts, and Various Printed Editions, Accompanied by a New English Translation of the Historical Works, and a Life of the Author, Saint Bede (the Venerable) Publisher: Whittaker, Original from.

This page shows details of an item from the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, ), pp.

97, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. Ker, 2nd ed., Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Oxford Medieval Texts) by Bede (Author), Bertram Colgrave (Editor), R.

Mynors (Editor) & 0 more. out of 5 stars 8 ratings. ISBN ISBN Why is ISBN important?/5(8). The Complete Works Of Venerable Bede: In The Original Latin, Collated With The Manuscripts, And Various Printed Editions, Accompanied By A New Translation Of The Historical Works, And A Life Of The Author, Volume 12 Each volume has added t.p.

in LatinPages: J. Webb, The Age of Bede(Harmondsworth: Penguin,rev. ), (also alongside the anonymous life of Ceolfrith). Chris Grocock and Ian Wood are preparing a new edition and translation of both works for Oxford Medieval Texts.

Chronica maiora/ The Greater Chronicle(ch. 66. Lowe's report of manuscripts in the libraries of Great Britain,6 limited to manuscripts which antedate the ninth century, contains only four Bede items, all Anglo-Saxon-two manuscripts of the Historia ecclesiastica and two of commen-taries on the Bible.

They are, respectively, (1) the Cambridge codex (Kk. 16), the oldest Bede manuscript that has sur. Illuminated Books & Manuscripts. There's something special about holding illuminated books and manuscripts in your hands.

The ornate pages take you back to a time when everything was handcrafted. You'll find a multitude of these collections at AbeBooks, ranging from gently used to. A hand-list of Bede manuscripts by M. Laistner with the collabora-tion of H. King. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press; Humphrey Milford, London, x+ pp.

18 s. According to Professor Laistner, 'the purpose of this book is to help students of Bede's genuine writings'. Many who are not professed. Saint Bede’s best known work was his book, ‘Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum’ or ‘The Ecclesiastical History of the English People’.

Divided into five books, it gives a wide overview of history of England, beginning with Caesar’s invasion. 9 Professor Laistner constructed a table which demonstrates the percentage of the surviving manuscripts of Bede's biblical commentaries belonging to each century, similar to his table for the Historia Ecclesiastica; Laistner, Hand-List, pattern resembles that for the Historia Ecclesiastica, in so far as there is a high percentage belonging to the twelfth by: This page lists the manuscripts and printed books digitised at Durham and now available online.

Manuscript Description Content IIIF Link Durham Cathedral Library MS. A.I.3 Description Nicholas of L.Bible manuscripts thereby reveal not only the remarkable history of an extraordinarily influential text, but also map the development of the book before the invention of printing. A small selection of biblical manuscripts held in the British Library is illustrated here, divided chronologically into five sections.