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Tuesday, 12 August 2008

The Manuscripts of Bede

The AMARC Summer meeting 2008 in the Prior's Hall at Durham Cathedral last week offered participants a great opportunity to listen to a series of papers bringing new Bede scholarship and projects to light. Among them:

Jo Story, ‘Bede and the transmission of papal letters to early Anglo-Saxon England’

Julian Harrison, ‘Reclassifying the manuscripts of the Historia ecclesiastica: the evidence of the annalistic recapitulatio’

Joshua Westgard, ‘An electronic hand-list of Bede manuscripts’

Richard Gameson, ‘Indexing Bede in the late Middle Ages’

Mark Faulkner, ‘Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica in Anglo-Norman England’

Alan Coates, ‘The Early Printed Editions of Bede’

The meeting was accompanied by a small display of Bede’s manuscripts from the Cathedral's holdings. Notes on the material exhibitied were helpfully compiled by Professor Richard Gameson and bound in a pamphlet entitled Bede in Durham Cathedral Library. The pamphlet can be consulted in the Palaeography Room, classmark CC25.61 (P.C.2.) (17).

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