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'Incipit liber Ecclesiasticę Hystorię gentis Anglorum venerabilis Bedę presbiteri primus': the five books, with preface, written perhaps in the third quarter of the 12th cent. in England
At fol. 79v is a genealogy of Mercian kings, beg. 'Anno ... (626) Penda filius regis Pybbę': and at fol. 80 'Passio sancti Kenelmi martiris', with preface, text beg. 'Kenulfus gloriosissimus ... rex Merciorum': ends imperfect, a leaf or two being lost, 'quibus ducibus patriam beatus mar', but this imperfect chapter and the preceding one, in which an event of the year 1149 is mentioned as recent, have been added rather later.Fols. 86-end are paper almost entirely blank: fols. 84-5…
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Douce Manuscripts
Shelfmark: MS. Douce 368
Extents: 150 Leaves
Dates:
written perhaps in the third quarter of the 12th cent. in England