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TM 67786 / LDAB 9057 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/67786

also known as St Petersburg Bede; Leningrad Bede

Metadata

Date: AD 746

Provenance: Wearmouth-Jarrow Abbey - United Kingdom (BritanniaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - BritanniaThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Latin / Old English (paleography: Anglo-Saxon minuscule)

Latin with Old English

Material: parchment

Completely preserved

Book form: codex (162 fol.); columns per page: 2; highest page number: 161; number of lines per page: 26-33

Content (beta!): literary text, Beda: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (with end title) + Caedmon's hymn (old English)

Authors / works: Beda Venerabilis, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (direct attestation)
Caedmon's hymn (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — prose, history (religion: christian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo

More info: CLAEarlier Latin Manuscripts => 2046 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM

Publications

Arngart, The Leningrad Bede. An eight-century manuscript of the Venerable Bede's 'Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum' in the Public Library, Leningrad (Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile 2) (Arngart, Olof - 1952; facsimile edition) [default]

∙Lowe, CLA 11 1621 (Lowe, Elias Avery - 1966)

∙Anglo-Saxon England 9 (1980), no. 846 (Gneuss, H. - 1980) (= catalogue only)

Photo: CLA 11 1621; facsimile edition by Arngart 1952; E.A. Lowe, Palaeographical Papers II (1972), pl. 95-96, 98-101; Scriptorium 49 (1995), pl. 9; Credo. Christianisierung Europas im Mittelalter I, 2013, p. 215

Script & book studies: written by 4 scribes; E.A. Lowe, Palaeographical Papers 2 (1972), p. 441-449; for the date, see also M. B. Parkes, The Scriptorium of Wearmouth-Yarrow, Yarrow Lecture 1982, p. 5-12; M. Schapiro, Scriptorium 12 (1958), p. 191-207 (on the decoration); R. Shaw, Revue d'histoire des textes 17 (2022), p. 218

Collections

→ St Petersburg, Russian National Library Lat. Q. v. I. 18

formerly personal property of Achille III de Harlay

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    TM 67786

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