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Beda, Historia ecclesiastica — Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Northumberland. Benedictine priory of St Peter; originally seat of bishopric; later cell of Durham.


Provenance: Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Northumberland. Benedictine priory of St Peter; originally seat of bishopric; later cell of Durham.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Cotton Tiberius C.ii
Author/Title: Beda, Historia ecclesiastica
Type of evidence: i: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)
Date: s. viii ex.
Notes:

In Bede's preliminary letter an almost contemporary hand wrote 'nostro' between 'patre' and 'et antistite cudberchti' on fol. 4r.