Historiae ecclesiasticae gentis anglorum libri V. / A Venerabili Beda Presbytero scripti ; tribus praecipuè MSS. Latinis, à mendis haud paucis repurgati: ab augustissimo veterum Anglo-Saxonum rege Aluredo (sive Alfredo) examinati ... Opera haec ferè omnia Saxonica hactenus in archivis recondita, nunc demum in reipublicae literariae usum deprompta e Bibliotheca Publica Cantabrigiensi.

Accession number: 
PML 196092
Author: 
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Published: 
Cantabrigiae : Excudebat Rogerus Daniel ..., 1643.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2014.
Description: 
[16], 463, 468-490, 487-570, [10] p. ; 35 cm
Notes: 

T.p. printed in red and black.
Dedication signed: Abrahamus Whelocus.
Pages 464-480 and 483-486 misnumbered 468-484 and 487-490 respectively.
Signatures: A-3S⁴3T⁴( -3T3)3V-4E⁴4F².
Includes index.
Anglo-Saxon and Latin texts in parallel columns.
"Errata": p. [9] at end.
Library's copy lacking blank leaf comprising p. 501-502, as usual.

Binding: 
Black morocco Cambridge style binding tooled in gilt by John Houlden.
Provenance: 
Armorial bookplate of Charles Long of Hurts Hall; Henry Pelham Archibold Douglas Pelham-Clinton; Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, his sale, London, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1937, lot 240.
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Classification: 
Binding Collection
Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books