London. British Library, Stowe MS 104

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  • Latin
  • Old English
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  • Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ; Cuthbert, Epistola de Obitu Bede with Bede's Death Song ; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (extracts); Aelred of Rielvaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris ; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Beate Marie Virginitate (extract)
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  • Preferred form
    • Hugues de Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)
    Original form
    • Hugh of Saint-Victor, c 1096-1141
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    • HUGO DE SANCTO VICTORE
    • Hugo de Sancto Victore
    • Hugo de Sancto Victore (1096?-1141)
    • Hugues de Saint-Victor
    • Hugues de Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)
    • Magistro Hugone
    • Hugo
    • Hugonis de Sancto-Victore
    • Hugues de Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
    • Hug, de Sant Víctor, 1096-1141
    • Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
    • Hugo de Sancto Victore, 1096?-1141
    • Hugo van Sint-Victor
    • Author: Hugo, de Sancto Victore
    • Hugh of St. Victor
    • Hugh of St.-Victor
    • Hugues de Saint-Victor (10..-1141)
    • Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA (attrib.)
    • Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA
    • Hugo de Sancto Victore, 1096-1141
    • Hugo<de Sancto Victore>
    • Hugo <de Sancto Victore> (1096-1141)
    • Hugo von Sankt Victor
    • Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)
    • Hugh, of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)
    • Hugues de Saint-Victor (1096?-1141) > Chanoine
    • Hugues de Saint-Victor (1096?-1141) > théologien
    • Hugo (ca. 1096-1141)
    • Hugo, von Sankt Victor, 1096-1141
    • Hugo <de Sancto Victore>
    • Hugo de Sancto Victore, 1096-1141 > , co-autor
    • Hugo de Sancto Victore - 1096 - 1141 - auteur
    • Hugo de Sancto Victore - 1096 - 1141 - auteur (dubium)
    • Hugo de Sancto Victore - auteur
    • De Sancto Victore, Hugo - 1096-1141 - auteur
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    • Aelred de Rievaulx (saint, 1109?-1166)
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    • Aelred of Rievaulx, ?1110-1167, Saint, Abbot of Rievaulx
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    • Aelredus, Rievallis abbas
    • Aelredus Rievallensis
    • Aelredus de Rievalle
    • Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167
    • Aelred of Rievaulx
    • Aelred of Rievaulx OCist
    • Ælred de Rievaulx (v. 1110 v. 1166/7), abbé
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    • Bède le Vénérable (saint, 0673?-0735)
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    • Bede the Venerable, c 673-735, Saint
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    • Bède le Vénérable (saint ; 0673?-0735)
    • Beda Venerabilis
    • Beda Venerabilis (saint ; 0673?-0735)
    • BEDA VENERABILIS
    • BEDA
    • Beda
    • BEDA VENERABILIS (s.)
    • Bède
    • S. Beda venerabilis
    • Venerabilis Bedae
    • Bède le Vénérable (0673?-0735)
    • Beda Venerabilis (ps.)
    • S. Beda Venerabilis
    • Venerabilis BEDE
    • Bede
    • Bedae
    • Bedae venerabilis
    • Bède le Vénérable saint 0673?-0735
    • Beda, el Venerable, sant, 673-735
    • Beda el Venerable, Santo
    • Beda Venerabilis 672-735
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Author: Beda, Venerabilis
    • Commentator: Beda, Venerabilis
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    • Bede the Venerable
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    • Bede (673/4–735)
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    • Beda Venerabilis, 673-735
    • Beda<Venerabilis>
    • Bède le Vénérable
    • Beda <Venerabilis> (672-735)
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint 673-735
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
    • Bède le Vénérable, saint (0673?-0735)
    • Beda, Venerabilis, 672-735
    • Beda <Venerabilis>
    • Beda, O Venerável, 673-736
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    • Folcardus Sithiensis (10..-1085?)
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    • Folcard of Saint-Bertin, fl 1066, Monk of Saint-Bertin in Saint-Omer, Christ Church in Canterbury, and Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire
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    • Folcard OSB
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    • Cuthbertus Wiremuthensis (06..?-07..)
    Original form
    • Cuthbert of Wearmouth, fl 735, Abbot of Wearmouth
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    • Cuthbert
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Description
  • Contents: ff. 1r-112r: Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), includes the last paragraph of the prologue at the end (f. 112r). ff. 112v-113v: Cuthbert (fl. 735), abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Epistola de Obitu Bede (Letter on the Death of Bede), including Old English verses in Bede's Death song (f. 112v), beginning: 'forþan nedfere næni wyrþaw'. ff. 113v-114r: Latin verses containing the names of the archbishops of Canterbury from Augustine to Nothelm and Lambertus. ff. 114r-115v: Chapters from Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica relating to St John of Beverley (d. 721), archbishop of York, including the heading in upper margin: 'De Sancto Johanne archiepiscopo'. These chapters were omitted from the text on ff. 1r-112r as a note written by the scribe specifies: 'Require in fine libri quinti que hic deficiunt' (f. 89r), beginning in the middle of chapter 2: 'dicenda illi proponere' (f. 114r), ending at the end of chapter 5: 'perhibet esse relatum' (f. 115v). ff. 115v-117r: Extracts from the Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (Life of St John Beverley) ofFolcard of Saint-Bertin (d. after 1085),beginning: 'Magnificavit dominus illum in conspectu'. ff. 118r-149v: Aelred of Rievaulx (b. 1109, d. 1167), Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris (Life of Edward the Confessor), preceded by capitula (ff. 118r-v), the dedicatory epistle to Henry II (ff. 119r-v), the epistle to Lawrence of Westminster who requested this work (ff. 119v-120r) and followed by Latin verses at the end (f. 149v): 'Gloria summa Deo, qui solus iure triumphat'. f. 149v: Added at the very end of the 12th century, a short extract from Hugh of Saint-Victor (b. c. 1096, d. 1141), De Beate Marie Virginitate (On the Virginity of St Mary),prologue, beginning: 'Incipit prologus magistri Hugonis ad Walterum pontificem de virginitate Sancte Marie. Sancto pontifici .G. Hugo servus vestre beatitudinis'. Decoration:Nine large initials, some with a puzzle design, in colours with foliate or 'split petal' decoration (f. 1r, 22r, 62v, 88r, 110r, 112v, 119r, 119v, 120r). Large initials in red, most with blue penwork decoration, or in blue, most with red penwork decoration and sometimes with other colours. Small simple initials in red or blue. Headings and rubrics in red.
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