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Selections by Bede, including his Historia ecclesiastica : [manuscript]

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Description: Part 1. f. i verso: [Biographical note on Bede, written in the hand of Robert Elyot]. Part 1. ff. 1-109v: [Bede, Historia ecclesiastica]: f. 1: preface; f. 2: chapter list of Book 1; f. 2v-109v: Incipit: Britannia occeani insula quondam albion nomen fuit ... Explicit: et parere semper ante faciem tuam. [Caedmon's hymn in Old English in the outer margin of f. 82 in the hand of the scribe]. Part 1. f. 109v: [Verses on Bede]: Incipit: Suscipe nostrorum rex historiam populorum/ Quam lege scribe proba cunctos hanc nosse labora/ Scribens in sceda sedet hic sua dogmata Beda/ Ex anglis natus doctissimus atque probatus/ Nam Scripturarum tractando profunda sacrarum/ Mundum doctrinis ceu sol perlustrat opimis ... Explicit: Scriptor, Nunc pater o Beda tibi supplico tu michi te da/ Hostis ne preda sim per mea crimina feda. Sancte pater Beda temptantis deprime feda/ Ne sibi sim preda protectoris michi te da. Part 1. f. 110: [Seven couplets using the name "Beda" in the different grammatical cases, labelled in the margin "in nominativo casu" (twice), "in genitivo," etc.; also in the margin, "Isti versus extracti erant de quadam parva rotula doctoris gaskun," apparently in reference to Thomas Gascoigne (d. 1458), followed by the verse, Iaru non Iarum sancto Bede dedit ortum; all in the hand of Robert Elyot]: Incipit: Extitit hic Beda doctor venerabilis idem. [f. 110v blank] Part 2. ff. 111-130: [Bede, Expositio Actuum Apostolorum]: Preface: Incipit prefacio Bede presbiteri in Actus Apostolorum missa Acce episcopo, Domino in christo desiderantissimo et vere beatissimo acce episcopo beda perpetuam in domino salutem. Accepi creberimas beatitudinis tue litteras ... Rubric: Incipit expositio in Actus Apostolorum, Primum quidem sermonem. Incipit: De omnibus se dicit christi factis et dictis se scripsisse. Explicit: cursum consumavi fidem servavi. Amen. Part 2. ff. 130-131v:[Place names in Bede]: Rubric: Descriptio situs terre a Beato Beda provinciarum civitatum insularum huic libro conggruendum [sic]. Incipit: Acheldemach est ager sangwinis qui usque monstratur in bely. Explicit: quod in eo populus stans desuper atque spectans ludos scenicos contemplaretur. Explicit expositio bede presbiteri in Actus Apostolorum. Part 2. ff. 131v-170: [Bede, In epistolas VII catholicas]: Rubric: Incipit in epistola Iacobi Apostoli Exposicio venerabilis Bede presbiteri, Iacobus dei et domini nostri ihesu christi servus duodecim tribubus que sunt in dispersione salutem. Incipit: Dixit de hoc Iacobo apostolus paulus ... Explicit: Et hoc non ab inicio temporis alicuius sed ante omne seculum et nunc et in omnia secula seculorum. Amen. Amen. Amen. Explicit exposicio venerabilis bede in epistola iude apostoli. Part 2. f. 170: [Quaestio; added in a cursive script]: Incipit: Queritur utrum virgo maria in concepcione filii sui spiritu sancto in aliquo cooperata fueret ... Explicit: ipsa sola a deo sicud mulier viro commixta unde tota substancia christi filii de matre sua. Part 2. f. 170:[Hugh of St. Victor, De arca Noe morali; added in a cursive script]: Incipit: Inter amorem huius mundi et amorem dei hoc distare ... Explicit: bibatur suavissimum poculum caritatis. [f. 170v blank, except for erased pen trials, including "Edwardus dei gratia Rex Anglie dux ybernie; domine labia mea; Pater noster"].

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