Title

The Venerable Bede (c673-735), Anglo-Saxon theologian, scholar and historian, 1493. Artist: Unknown.

Caption

The Venerable Bede (c673-735), Anglo-Saxon theologian, scholar and historian, 1493. Seen here holding a book, Bede was a monk at Jarrow, Northumberland. As a scholar and historian his most important work was the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People), a political and ecclesiastical history of England from the time of Caesar to the date when Bede completed it (731). From Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle) by Hartmann Schedel. (Nuremberg, 1493). (Colorised black and white print).
The Print Collector collection

Date

1493

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19D08_139

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

40,2Mb (1,9Mb) / 11,2in x 13,9in / 3374 x 4168 (300dpi)

Keywords

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