![]() ![]() He has been the first to collate the four oldest MSS., besides examining numerous others and collating them in certain passages. ![]() Plummer's Introduction to his edition of Bede's Historical Works. A detailed account of these, as well as of a great number of other manuscripts, will be found in Mr. (Cambridge), so called, because, after being sold by auction in the reign of William III, it came into the possession of Bishop Moore, who bequeathed it to the University of Cambridge Cotton, Tiberius A, xiv Cotton, Tiberius C, ii and the Namur MS. There are, it has been estimated, in England and on the Continent, in all about 140 manuscripts of the "Ecclesiastical History." Of these, four date from the eighth century: the Moore MS. It is believed to have been completed in 731 when Bede was approximately 59 years old. It was originally composed in Latin, is considered to be one of the most important original references on Anglo-Saxon history and has played a key role in the development of an English national identity. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Latin: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), written by the Venerable Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally its main focus is on the conflict between the pre-Schism Roman Rite and Celtic Christianity. Sellar late Vice-Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. ![]() ![]()
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