Volume II: The Leningrad Bede

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Volume II: The Leningrad Bede

This, the least accessible of all surviving copies of Bede’s ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY and unknown when Plummer published his famous edition in 1896, is a manuscript of the first importance, not only as our best source of knowledge of the text of Bede’s great work but also as a landmark in Northumbrian palaeography and illumination.

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Praefatio 1a-2a

Bede's Contents 2a-3a

Liber Primus 3b-26a

Liber Secundus 26a-48b

Liber Tertius 48b-77b

Liber Quartus 78a-188b

Short contents list? 199a-199b

Liber Quintus 119b-161a

Special note: Caedmon's Hymn found on 107a