Biblia (1 folio) — Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, Durham. Benedictine abbey of St Paul; later cell of Durham.
| Provenance: | Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, Durham. Benedictine abbey of St Paul; later cell of Durham. |
| Location: | British Library, London |
| Shelfmark: | Additional 37777 |
| Author/Title: | Biblia (1 folio) |
| Type of evidence: | s: evidence from the style of script or illumination |
| Notes on evidence: | Add. 37777 and Add. 45025 are fragments of one volume written in the same type of uncial and in the same format as the Codex Amiatinus (Florence, Laurenziana, MS. Amiatino 1), and therefore to be identified with one of the two bibles written for Wearmouth-Jarrow at the time that Amiatinus was written for presentation to St Peter's, Rome (Bede, Hist. Abbatum, ed. Plummer, 1. 379–80). For other MSS. written in the scriptorium of Wearmouth-Jarrow see E. A. Lowe, English Uncial (Oxford 1960), pp. 8–13. |
| Date: | s. vii/viii |
| Ownership: | Rev. W. Greenwell discovered it in a Newcastle antique shop, 1909, and presented it to the Museum. |
| Notes: | Identified by C. H. Turner as part of one of Abbot Ceolfrid's gifts to the monastery. Facsimiles etc. in N.P.S. 1. 158–159. Cf. also CLA 2. 177. |