Source: Textual EditionCuthbertWearm.ObitBedae

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Author Cuthbert, abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow
Source Title Letter on the Death of Bede
Date of composition 735 ?
Language Latin

Edition(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Go to Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People Colgrave, Bertram and Mynors, R. A. B. Cuthbert's letter on the death of Bede Oxford 1969 (1991) 580-6
Go to   Ker, N.R. The Hague manuscript of the Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedæ with Bede's song Medium Ævum 1939 41-4

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Colgrave, Bertram and Mynors, R. A. B. Cuthbert's letter on the death of Bede Oxford 1969 (1991) 580-6

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Event CuthbertWearm.ObitBedae  titulus, pp.582, 584 Bede 1 wanted to finish the translation of St John's gospel and a selection of Isidore's book On the Wonders of Nature.
2 Event CuthbertWearm.ObitBedae  Titulus; pp. 580, 584, 586 Cuthbert 5 provides a detailed description of Bede 1's illness and death.
3 Event CuthbertWearm.ObitBedae  p.580 Cuthwine 8 sent Cuthbert 5 a letter together with a present.
4 Event CuthbertWearm.ObitBedae  p. 580 Cuthbert 5 wrote a letter in reply to Cuthwine 8's and sent him a brief account of Bede 1's death.
5 Event CuthbertWearm.ObitBedae  p. 584 The brothers of the monastery (Anonymi 693) went in procession with the relics, as it was the custom of that day.
6 Event CuthbertWearm.ObitBedae  p. 584 Bede 1 asked Cuthbert 5 to go and fetch the priests (Anonymi 694) of the monastery as he wanted to give them his little treasures: some pepper, napkins and incense.
7 Transaction CuthbertWearm.ObitBedae  p. 584 a few treasures in his box: some pepper, napkins and some incense