Collection items

Calculating time

Manuscript Created date: 1st third of the 9th century–Late 11th century

This manuscript consists of three books joined together in the medieval period at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain...

English copy of Bede's Commentary on the Gospel of...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century

The Venerable Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), whose greatest work was the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, also w...

French copy of Bede's Commentary on the Gospel of ...

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

The great Anglo-Saxon scholar, Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), is often ranked alongside the Church Fathers for his widely-cop...

French copy of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 9th century

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and scholar of Wearmout...

The Reckoning of Time

Manuscript Created date: 11th century–12th century

‘The Reckoning of Time’ was a very influential work composed by the monk Bede (d. 735) in 725. This manuscript is one of...

The story of Cædmon's Hymn

Manuscript Created date: 775–825

The earliest named English poet was a cowherd named Cædmon who lived at the Abbey of Whitby. We know about this man beca...

Tiberius Bede

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 9th century

Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731. The work tells the story of the conversion of ...