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'''British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II''' is an [[8th century]] [[Illuminated manuscript|illuminated]] [[manuscript]] of [[Bede]]'s ''[[Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum]]''. It is one of only four surviving 8th century manuscripts of Bede. As such it is on the closest texts to Bede's autograph. The manuscript has 155 [[vellum]] [[Bookbinding|folio]]s. This manuscript may have been the [[Latin]] text on which the [[Alfred the Great|Alfredian]] [[Old English language|Old English]] translation of Bede's ''Ecclesiastical History'' was based. The manuscript is decorated with [[zoomorphic]] initials in a partly [[Insular art|Insular]] and partly Continental style. The manuscript has given its name to the 'Tiberius' group of manuscripts, connected on stylistic grounds and sometimes also known as the 'Canterbury' group, though the region of their production remains unknown. |
'''British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II''', or the '''Tiberius Bede''', is an [[8th century]] [[Illuminated manuscript|illuminated]] [[manuscript]] of [[Bede]]'s ''[[Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum]]''. It is one of only four surviving 8th century manuscripts of Bede. As such it is on the closest texts to Bede's autograph. The manuscript has 155 [[vellum]] [[Bookbinding|folio]]s. This manuscript may have been the [[Latin]] text on which the [[Alfred the Great|Alfredian]] [[Old English language|Old English]] translation of Bede's ''Ecclesiastical History'' was based. The manuscript is decorated with [[zoomorphic]] initials in a partly [[Insular art|Insular]] and partly Continental style. The manuscript has given its name to the 'Tiberius' group of manuscripts, connected on stylistic grounds and sometimes also known as the 'Canterbury' group, though the region of their production remains unknown. |
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British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II, or the Tiberius Bede, is an 8th century illuminated manuscript of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. It is one of only four surviving 8th century manuscripts of Bede. As such it is on the closest texts to Bede's autograph. The manuscript has 155 vellum folios. This manuscript may have been the Latin text on which the Alfredian Old English translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History was based. The manuscript is decorated with zoomorphic initials in a partly Insular and partly Continental style. The manuscript has given its name to the 'Tiberius' group of manuscripts, connected on stylistic grounds and sometimes also known as the 'Canterbury' group, though the region of their production remains unknown.
M.Brown, 'The 'Tiberius' Group and its historical context', in M.Brown and C.Farr (eds.) Mercia - an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in Europe (Leicester, 2001), pp.278-294.
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