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Title: The History of the Church of Englande Author: Bede, The Venerable Place: Antwerp Publisher: John Laet Date: 1565 Description: [4], 192, [4] ff. Two full page and one half page woodcut illustrations. (4to) 7¼x5½, early full vellum, modern endpapers. Original title page (A1) lacking and with a manuscript facsimile replacement; leaves C2 and C3 supplied in facsimile, leaf C4 possibly supplied from another copy. First Edition in English Translated into English by Thomas Stapleton. Almost all that is known of Bede's life is contained in a notice added by himself when he was 59 to his Historia (v.24), which states that he was placed in the monastery at Wearmouth at the age of seven, that he became deacon in his nineteenth year, and priest in his thirtieth. He implies that he finished the Historia at the age of 59, and since the work was finished around 731, he must have been born in 672/3. It is not clear whether he was of noble birth. He was trained by the abbots Benedict Biscop and Ceolfrid, and probably accompanied the latter to Wearmouth's sister monastery of Jarrow in 682. There he spent his life, prominent activities evidently being teaching and writing. There he also died, on 25 May 735, and was buried, although his body was later transferred to Durham Cathedral. Lot Amendments Condition: Vellum darkened; red pencil underlining throughout; else very good. Item number: 186628