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Egerton MS 3278

Record Id:

032-001985470

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001985470

MDARK:

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LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Egerton MS 3278

Title:

Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gens Anglorum (Bk. 5, Chs 19-20)

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains a single leaf of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, covering parts of book 5, chapters 19-20.

Decoration:

Small initials in red, green, or brown. Letters highlighted in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Egerton Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001985470

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-001985470

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 leaf

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1030

End Date:

1070

Date Range:

Mid-11th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: binding 300 x 210 mm (folio 300 x 180 mm).

Foliation: f. 1 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 49 at the end).

Binding: British Museum/ British Library in-house; rebound in 1969. The old wrappings for the manuscript are found on the fourth unfoliated modern paper folio before f. 1.

Custodial History:

Origin: Southern England.

Provenance:

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, inventory no. 67205: inscription in pencil '67205' (f. 1); small fragment afflixed to an unfoliated flyleaf with the number 67205.

Purchased in 1943 by the British Museum, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

Venerabilis Baedae Opera Historica, ed by Charles Plummer, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896), I, 329-31.

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, ed. by Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. lvii.

The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1936-1945, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1970), I, no. Eg. 3278.

Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 410.5.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London
Wellcome, Henry Solomon, Knight 1932, d 1936

Places:

Southern England

Related Material:

From The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1936-1945, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1970), I, no. Eg. 3278:

'BEDE, ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY: a single leaf containing the epitaph on Wilfrid and parts ofthe preceding and following text (Bk. V, c. 20), in Latin, written in England in the middle of the 11th century. Beg. 'conualuit igitur'; ends 'consecrata est, aedificium' (see Venerabilis Baedae Opera Historica, ed. C. Plummer, i, 1896, pp. 329-331). The text differs from Plummer's in interpolating the date of Wilfrid's death (12 October); the omission of 'scriptum' before the epitaph makes it impossible to assign the fragment to either of Plummer's families M and C. Vellum; ff. ii + 1. 295 mm. x 195 mm. Mid xi cent. Written 29 lines to the page. Written in a fine regular hand of the period, resembling in style manuscripts of the second quarter of the 11th century connected with Winchester, e.g. the later part of the Ramsey Benedictional (Paris, Bibl. Nat. MS. latin 987). In writing personal names, the Saxon characters p and p are employed. Rubrics in silver, green and red. A corrector has added 're' before 'ceptus' in l. 11 and deleted 're' in the previous line, and has also supplied 'i' in 'sui' in line 12. Formerly Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (inventory no. 67205). From the Farnborough Fund.'