BEDE , the Venerable
Large fragment, almost a full leaf, from Bede's Commentary on St. Mark's Gospel, in Latin, manuscript on vellum.
Italy, 1100-1150
BEDE'S COMMENTARY ON ST MARK
BEDE , the Venerable
Large fragment, almost a full leaf, from Bede's Commentary on St. Mark's Gospel, in Latin, manuscript on vellum.
Italy, 1100-1150
Bede’s Commentary on Mark is one of his later (after AD 716) and most popular works. The text found here is: In Marci Evangelium Expositio, Book I, ch. II (Patrologia Latina, vol. 92, cols. 149-151; ed. D. Hurst, Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, vol. 120, 1960).
“The great number of manuscripts copied in the period from the late eleventh to the early thirteenth century is not difficult to explain. It was this age, that, both on the European Continent and in England, was distinguished by a religious revival which spread far and wide and had, as its chief characteristic, the reform of old and organisation of new religious orders.” (Laister, p. 6).
M.L. Laistner, A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (1943), pp. 50-55.
