Tiberius Bede

{{Short description|Illustrated manuscript of Bede's Ecclesiastical History}} thumb|A decorated initial ''A'' from folio 60v of the Tiberius Bede. '''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, another of which happens to be MS Cotton Tiberius A. XIV, produced at Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey.<ref>[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourPopup.asp?TourID=5 British Library]</ref> As such it is one of 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 – Mercia has also been suggested. Apart from the Tiberius Bede, the group includes: Vespasian Psalter, Stockholm Codex Aureus, Barberini Gospels, Book of Cerne,<ref name=brown2005.282>Brown 2005, p. 282</ref> Blickling Psalter, Codex Bigotianus (BnF MS lat. 281, 298),<ref>Brown 2011, p. 134</ref> Royal Bible (British Library MS Royal 1.E.vi),<ref>Brown 2011, p. 139</ref> Royal Prayerbook, Book of Nunnaminster,<ref>Brown 2011, p. 158</ref> Harleian Prayerbook,<ref name=brown2011.162>Brown 2011, p. 162</ref> Saint Petersburg Gospels,<ref>Brown 2005, pp. 282–283</ref> Anglian collection manuscript V (British Library MS Cotton Vespasian B.vi, folios 104–109),<ref name=brown2005.282 /><ref>Brown 2011, p. 164</ref><ref>Dumville 1976</ref> BnF MS lat. 10861,<ref name=brown2011.162 /><ref>Brown 1986</ref> Bodleian Library MS Hatton 93, Salisbury Cathedral Library MS 117,<ref name=brown2005.282 /><ref>Brown 2011, pp. 163–164</ref> and a number of other manuscripts.<ref name=brown2005.282 /><ref>Brown 2011, p. 164 n. 213</ref>

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== References == * {{cite journal |author1=Michelle P. Brown |title=Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 10861 and the scriptorium of Christ Church, Canterbury |journal=Anglo-Saxon England |date=1986 |volume=15 |pages=119–137 |doi=10.1017/S0263675100003720}} ** relevant plates (I–IV) are available online at the end of another article in the same volume of the journal, {{doi|10.1017/S026367510000209X}} * {{cite encyclopedia |author1=Michelle P. Brown |title=Mercian manuscripts? The "Tiberius" group and its historical context |encyclopedia=Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe |editor1=Michelle P. Brown |editor2=Carol A. Farr |date=2005 |pages=281–291 |isbn=978-1-4411-5353-1}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=jZavAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA281 google books preview] * {{cite encyclopedia |author1=Michelle P. Brown |title=Writing in the Insular world |encyclopedia=The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Volume 1: c.400–1100 |editor1=Richard Gameson |date=2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=121–166 |isbn=978-0-521-58345-9 |doi=10.1017/CHOL9780521583459.005}} * {{cite journal |author1=David N. Dumville |title=The Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists |journal=Anglo-Saxon England |date=1976 |volume=5 |pages=23–50 |doi=10.1017/S0263675100000764}}

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