Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 177

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS500

Shelfmark:

Ricketts 177

Title:

Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum

Author:

Bede

Bede WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany, Rhineland

Germany TGN

Date:

s. IX(in); 800-815

ninth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Script, One fragment, upper half of a leaf: Insular pointed minuscule.
Layout, One fragment, upper half of a leaf: 18 lines here (of 28), ruled in blind, written-space here 135 mm. high (of approximately 210 mm.) by c. 142 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872), part of his MS 22254; bought by Tregaskis at the Phillips sale, Sotheby's, 25 April 1911, lot 391; Tregaskis cat. 706 (1911), no. 17, and cat. 720 (1912), no 36; bought by C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872), part of his MS 22254; bought by Tregaskis at the Phillips sale, Sotheby's, 25 April 1911, lot 391; Tregaskis cat. 706 (1911), no. 17, and cat. 720 (1912), no 36; bought by C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: Fragment is upper half of a leaf recovered from a binding of an octavo volume, with a horizontal crease and paste stain across the lower edge.
Bibliography: Phillipps 1837-71, p. 414; Schenkl 1892, p. 147; De Ricci 1935, p. 644; Laistner and King 1944, p. 96; Colgrave and Mynors 1969, p. xliv, n. 5; Gneuss 1981, p.50, no. 797; Bischoff and Brown 1985, p. 317; O'Keefe 1987, p. 145, n.2; Stoneman 1997, pp. 101, 104 and 111; Bischoff 1998, p. 138, no. 647; Zechiel-Eckes 2003, p. 29.
One fragment, upper half of a leaf: The Ricketts fragment was written within a century of Bede's life and it was formerly ascribed to England, s. VIII (Colgrave and Mynors 1969; Gneuss 1981). Superb example of Anglo-Saxon/Insular minuscule. The other half of the Lilly leaf is in the Universitätsund Landesbibliotek, Düsseldorf, K1:B216. The Düsseldorf half was a fragment recovered from the...
One fragment, upper half of a leaf: Latin.
One fragment, upper half of leaf: Text is from near the end of Bede's Historical Ecclesiastica book V, chapter 13. This passage is part of the account of a man who lies dying and has a vision of an angel and a devil, each carrying books recording the man's good deeds and his sins, one volume bound in white and the other in black. As such it is a rare literary reference to books and...
Incipit, One fragment, upper half of leaf: aetate bona.
Explicit, One fragment, upper half of leaf: Sed mirabiliter.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Ricketts177_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Ricketts177_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington