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| Keywords: LeningradBedeHiRes.jpg The Saint Petersburg Bede Saint Petersburg National Library of Russia lat Q v I 18 formerly known as the Leningrad Bede is an early surviving illuminated manuscript of Bede's 8th century history the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum Ecclesiastical History of the English People It was taken to the Russian National Library of Saint Petersburg at the time of the French Revolution Although not heavily illuminated it is famous for containing the earliest historiated initial one containing a picture in European illumination The opening three letters of Book 2 of Bede are decorated to a height of 8 lines of the text and the opening h contains a bust portrait of a haloed figure carrying a cross and a book This is probably intended to be St Gregory the Great although a much later hand has identified the figure as St Augustine of Canterbury http //www historyofscience com/G2I/timeline/index php category Manuscript+Illumination HistoryofScience com and http //www nlr ru/eng/coll/manuscripts/westscripts1 html Russian National Library St Petersberg circa 731 746 Unknown Anglo-Saxon artist 100px PD-Art Saint Petersburg Bede Saint Augustine of Canterbury | ||||
