Accession number
MS M.826
Object title
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (MS M.826).
Display Date
ca. 790-800.
Created
England, ca. 790-800.
Description
1 leaf, (2 columns, 31 lines) : vellum ; 300 x 240 mm
Provenance
Trimmed and used in a binding; Sir Thomas Phillipps Collection, no. 36275; purchased privately from the Phillipps Collection by A. Chester Beatty, 4 August 1924 (£20) (his W ms. 1 [alternatively W ms. 0]) (Beatty Catalogue, 1927, v. I, pp. 1-2, pls. I, II); his sale (London, Sotheby's, 7 June 1932, lot 1, £48, to Quaritch); purchased from H.P. Kraus, February 1948.
Notes
Ms. single leaf from Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; written and decorated in England, 790-800.
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, lib. III, cap. XXIX-XXX.
Decoration: initials decorated with colored wash.
Contained in brown morocco folder in 3/4 green morocco box.
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, lib. III, cap. XXIX-XXX.
Decoration: initials decorated with colored wash.
Contained in brown morocco folder in 3/4 green morocco box.
Script
insular minuscule
Language
Latin
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