Abstract
This article draws attention to a series of seven English annotations in a mid-twelfth-century copy of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica from Bury St Edmunds. It demonstrates that the annotations reflect the comparison of Bede’s Latin with a now-lost manuscript of the Old English Bede shortly after the twelfth-century codex’s production. The annotations are shown to hold a respect for the authority of the Old English Bede that contrasts with the prevailing twelfth-century attitude of gentle suspicion towards earlier vernacular translations.
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Appendix
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 492, fol. 4 r. Bede, Historia ecclesiastica, Book I, Chapter 1, with English glosses interlinearly and in the margin (Reproduced by permission of The Board of Trinity College Dublin)
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 492, fol. 4 r. Detail of interlinear gloss ‘.seolas.’ to ‘uituli marini’ (Reproduced by permission of The Board of Trinity College Dublin)
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 492, fol. 4 r. Detail of marginal gloss ‘.octo hund mile long. 7 tƿa hund mile brad.’, rotated 90° clockwise (Reproduced by permission of The Board of Trinity College Dublin)
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