Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 359: Bede the Venerable, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 359: Bede the Venerable, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

Alternate Title:

Bedae Historia, etc.

Language:

Latin and English, Old (ca. 450-1100)

Extent:

ff. 74

Dimensions:

245 Height (mm) and 178 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1300 - 1325]

Table of contents:

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• Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
• Epistola de obitu Baedae
• De natura rerum

Description:

CCCC MS 359 contains a fourteenth-century copy of two works by Bede the Venerable, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum and De natura rerum, together with a copy of De obitu Baedae by Cuthbert, abbot of Wearmouth-Jarrow (d. after 764). To the latter has been added in a sixteenth-century hand an Anglo-Saxon passage, suggesting that Parker or his contemporaries used such later Latin copies of pre-Conquest material as a way of understanding Anglo-Saxon. The provenance of this manuscript is unknown.