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English: The Saint Petersburg Bede is an early surviving manuscript of Bede's 8th century history, the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. It is so named because it was taken to the Russian National Library of Saint Petersburg in Russia at the time of the French Revolution.

[Latin text from https://thelatinlibrary.com/bede/bede1.shtml:

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Brittania Oceani insula, cui quondam Albion
nomen fuit, inter septentrionem
et occidentem locata est, Germaniae, Galliae, Hispaniae, maximis Euro
pae partibus, multo interuallo ad[-]
uersa. Quae per miliapassuum
DCCC in Boream longa, latitudinis
habet milia CC, exceptis dumtaxat
prolixioribus diuersorum promon[-]
toriorum tractibus, quibus efficitur,
ut circuitus eius quadragies octies
LXXV milia conpleat. Habet a meri[-]
die Galliam Belgicam, cuius proximum
litus transmeantibus aperit ciuitas,
quae dicitur Rutubi portus, a gen[-]
te Anglorum nunc corrupte Repta
cÃstir uocata, interposito mari
a Gessoriaco Morynorum gentis
litore proximo, traiectu milium L,
siue, ut quidam scripsere, stadiorum
CCCCL. A tergo autem, unde Oceano
infinito patet, Orcadas insulas habet.

[Second column:] Opima frugibus atque arboribus insula,
et alendis apta pecoribus ac iumentis;
uineas etiam quibusdam in locis ger[-]
minans; sed et auium ferax terra
marique generis diuersi; fluuiis quoque
multum piscosis ac fontibus praeclara
copiosis, et quidem praecipue issicio
abundat, et anguilla. Capiuntur
autem saepissime et uituli marini,
et delphines, nec non et balenae; excep[-]
tis uariorum generibus concyliorum;
in quibus sunt et musculae, quibus inclusam
saepe margaritam omnis quidem
coloris optimam inueniunt, id est et
rubicundi, et purpurei, et iacintini,
et prasini, sed maxime candidi. Sunt
et cocleae satis superque abundan[-]
tes, quibus tinctura coccinei coloris
conficitur, cuius rubor pulcherrimus
nullo umquam solis ardore, nulla
ualet pluuiarum iniuria pallescere;
sed quo uetustior, eo solet esse uenustior.
Habet fontes salinarum, habet et
fontes calidos, et ex eis fluuios bal[-]

nearum calidarum omni aetati et sexui per distincta loca iuxta suum cuique modum accommodos. Aqua enim, ut sanctus Basilius dicit, feruidam qualitatem recipit, cum per certa quaedam metalla transcurrit, et fit non solum calida, sed et ardens. Quae etiam uenis metallorum, aeris, ferri, et plumbi
Français : Le Bede de Saint-Pétersbourg est l'un des premiers manuscrits survivants de l'histoire de Bede au VIIIe siècle, l' Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. Il porte ce nom car il a été transporté à la Bibliothèque nationale russe de Saint-Pétersbourg en Russie au moment de la Révolution française.
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Source Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Beda Petersburgiensis, fol. 3v.
Author
Bede  (672–735)  wikidata:Q154938 s:en:Author:Bede q:en:Bede
 
Bede
Alternative names
Saint Bede
Saint Bede the Venerable
Venerable Bede
Description English monk and historian
English: A monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth (today part of Sunderland), England who is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The Father of English History". He was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII in 1899.
Date of birth/death circa 672 26 May 735
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creator QS:P170,Q154938
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