Examines a series of seven English annotations in a mid-twelfth-century copy of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica from Bury St Edmunds, demonstrating 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.
Reference: Mark Faulkner, ‘Dublin, Trinity College, MS 492: A New Witness to the Old English Bede and its Twelfth-Century Context’, Anglia: Zeitschrift fur Englische Philologie 135 (2017), 274-290.
(For additional discussion of these findings, along with other Old English in Trinity manuscripts, see my post on the Manuscripts at Trinity blog.)
Mark Faulkner 