This list of manuscripts of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica gives the location and name of known surviving manuscripts of Bede

Bede

Bede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria...

's most famous work, the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum is a work in Latin by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between Roman and Celtic Christianity.It is considered to be one of the most important original references on...

(Ecclesiastical History of the English People).

The c and m texts

The majority of the manuscripts of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica fall into one of two groups, known to scholars as c and m. The distinction between these two groups was first noticed by Charles Plummer, in his Baedae Opera Historica, published in 1896. Plummer gives five significant differences between the two:

1. In the m text, Bede asks for the prayers of his readers at the end of his preface; in the c text this comes at the end of the whole work.
2. Chapter 14 of book IV only appears in the m manuscripts.
3. There are three words in the m text near the beginning of book IV, chapter 18, which are omitted in the c text.
4. There is a variation between the texts in the annal for 731 given in the recapitulation at the end of the work; and in addition, the c text adds annals for 733 and 734 which do not appear in the m text.
5. The list of Bede's works in the c text omits his excerpts from Jerome on the prophets.

Colgrave, in his 1969 edition of the text, adds one more to this list, though he attributes this distinction to Plummer also:

6. The account of the miracles of St. Cuthbert in chapters 31 and 32 differs in that at the end of book IV, chapter 30, the m text uses "quaedam quae", where the c text has "unum quae"; the Latin in the c text implies only one miracle will be related, instead of the two that follow. In addition, the list of chapter headings in the c text has the headings for chapters 31 and 32 reversed.

The c text is now thought to be an earlier form of the work, since it is unlikely Bede (or any reviser) would have removed IV.14.

In Britain, only the c text circulated, whereas almost all the copies on the continent were of the m form.

Important early manuscripts

There are three early manuscripts of the c text, and five of the m text, which are regarded as the basis of these versions of Bede's work. The letters at the start of each ms description are used by scholars to refer to the main mss; these were mostly assigned by Plummer, with some modifications by Colgrave. The "CLA" number quoted refers to the Codices Latini Antiquiores, a published series of manuscripts that includes several of the Bede mss.

The following are c text manuscripts.

• K. Kassel
  Kassel
  Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...
  
  , Landesbibliothek 4° MS. theol. 2. CLA VIII, no. 1140. This manuscript omits books IV and V. It was written in a Northumbrian hand in the late eight-century. There is a pressmark on the cover, dating from the 15th century, indicating that it was owned by the abbey of Fulda
  Fulda
  Fulda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district .- Early Middle Ages :...
  
   in Hesse
  Hesse
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  .
• C. London, British Museum
  British Museum
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   Cotton Tiberius C. II. CLA II, no. 191. Written in southern England in the second half of the 8th century. Plummer asserted that this was written in Durham, but Colgrave disputes this.
• O. Oxford
  Oxford
  The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
  
  , Bodleian Library
  Bodleian Library
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   Hatton 43 (4106). Early 11th century.

The following are m text manuscripts.

• M. Cambridge
  Cambridge
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  , University Library Kk. 5. 16. CLA II, no. 139. Written in Northumbria in about 737. A complete reproduction of this manuscript was published in 1959. The manuscript was owned by John Moore, the bishop of Ely, who died in 1714; it was purchased by King George I and donated to Cambridge the following year.
• L. Saint Petersburg
  Saint Petersburg
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  , Public Library Lat. Q. v. I. 18. CLA XI, no 1621. Dates from no later than 747; probably copied at Wearmouth or Jarrow. A reproduction of the manuscript was published in 1952. The text of L and M are very similar, though M has more errors; both may well have been copied from the same original, which may have been Bede's own copy.
• U. Wolfenbüttel
  Wolfenbüttel
  Wolfenbüttel is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, located on the Oker river about 13 kilometres south of Brunswick. It is the seat of the District of Wolfenbüttel and of the bishop of the Protestant Lutheran State Church of Brunswick...
  
  , Herzog-August Bibliothek Weissenburg 34. CLA IX, no. 1385. Late 8th century; in an early Caroline minuscule hand. At one time it is known to have been at Weissenburg
  Weissenburg
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  .
• E. Würzburg
  Würzburg
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  , Universitätsbibliothek M. p. th. f. 118. From the second third of the 9th century; the hand is a Caroline minuscule which matches the hand used in Würzburg under Bishop Hunbert, who was bishop there from 832 to 842. In about 800, a list was made of books at Würzburg cathedral; the list included a Historia Anglorum and this may be a copy of that manuscript. At a later date the manuscript was owned by the abbey of Ebrach
  Ebrach
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  , about thirty miles east of Würzburg.
• N. Namur
  Namur (city)
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  , Public Library, Fonds de la ville II. Written in the 9th century in the Ardennes by several scribes of varying skill. Manuscripts E and U are very similar; N is useful as a somewhat independent witness to their text.

The m text in England

Only one manuscript of the m type remained in England.

• B. British Museum, Cotton Tiberius A. xiv. CLA Suppl., no. 1703. Written in Northumbria in the middle of the 8th century. It is a copy of L. It was part of the Cotton Library
  Cotton library
  The Cotton or Cottonian library was collected privately by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton M.P. , an antiquarian and bibliophile, and was the basis of the British Library...
  
  , and was badly damaged in 1731 in a fire at Ashburnham House
  Ashburnham House
  Ashburnham House is an extended seventeenth-century house on Little Dean's Yard in Westminster, London, United Kingdom, and since 1882 has been part of Westminster School...
  
   in London. There are two later additions at the start of I.7 which are also found in a group of c texts connected to Gloucester; see below.

The c text in England

The numerous c text manuscripts in England can be assigned to groups with greater or lesser certainty according to the correspondences between the manuscripts, though how they are derived from the original is not always clear.

Two manuscripts may have direct lineal relationship with C:

• Cambridge, Trinity College R. 7. 5 (743). Mostly written in the early 11th century, though some leaves were rewritten in the 12th century. Colgrave suggests that this may be a direct copy of C, as the text is a very close match.
• Cambridge, St. John's College S. 6 (254). Some material from the Trinity College ms above appears in this text too, and it may be a descendant of that manuscript. It is signed by John Mablethorpe, who was a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, in the middle of the 15th century, and the manuscript may be in his hand.

Durham group

This group, so named by Plummer, consists of a manuscript from Durham cathedral and eight further manuscripts that are derived from it. The parent is:

• Durham Cathedral Library B. ii. 35. Late 11th century.

The derived manuscripts are:

• British Museum, Harley 4124. Written in the 12th century; it is known to have belonged to the Augustinian priory
  Worksop Priory
  Worksop Priory is a Church of England parish church and former priory in the town of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, part of the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham....
  
   at Worksop
  Worksop
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   in the 14th century; the priory was founded in about 1120.
• Cambridge, Pembroke College 82. A 12th century copy from Tynemouth Priory, not far from Durham.
• British Museum, Additional 25014. Late 12th century. It belonged at one time to Newminster Abbey
  Newminster Abbey
  Newminster Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Northumberland in the north of England. The site is protected by Grade II listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument status...
  
  , founded in 1138; the manuscript contains a contemporary account of damage to the monastery done in 1333 by the Scots, during the Second War of Scottish Independence
  Second War of Scottish Independence
  The Second War of Scottish Independence was the second cluster of a series of military campaigns fought between the independent Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries....
  
  . There is also a note in the hand of John Bale
  John Bale
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   bishop of Ossory
  Ossory
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   from 1552; it subsequently belonged to the earls of Gosford.
• Vatican Library, Reginensis lat. 694. A 13th century manuscript that was at one time in Coupar Angus Abbey
  Coupar Angus Abbey
  Coupar Angus Abbey was a Cistercian monastery near Coupar Angus, in central Scotland, on the boundary between Angus and Gowrie.It was founded on the old royal manor of Coupar in 1161 x 1162 with the patronage of Máel Coluim IV , King of Scots, by Cistercian monks from Melrose Abbey...
  
  .
• Oxford, Corpus Christi College 279. This is a 14th century manuscript bound with an 11th century copy of the Old English version of the history. The book was given to Corpus Christi by the antiquary Bryan Twyne in the 17th century, and it may have been Twyne who had the manuscript bound in this way.
• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates 18. 5. 1. 14th century. This manuscript is recorded in a 1506 catalogue of Exeter Cathedral's manuscripts. It belonged to John Parker, son of Matthew Parker
  Matthew Parker
  Matthew Parker was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder of Anglican theological thought....
  
  ; John Parker gave it to Richard Cosen in 1585. In 1629 it came into the hands of Sir James Balfour,and from there went to the Edinburgh Faculty of Advocates when the faculty acquired Balfour's manuscript collection.
• British Museum, Burney 310. This is a copy made of Durham B. ii. 35 by Guillaume du Stiphel, a Breton scribe, in 1381. The manuscripted was copied for Uthred of Boldon, who had been prior of Finchale Priory
  Finchale Priory
  Finchale Priory was a 13th century Benedictine priory. The remains are sited by the River Wear, four miles from Durham. It is a Grade I listed building.-Current Situation:...
  
  , near Durham.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 302 (2086). Early 15th century. It was owned in the 16th century by one George Hull, and subsequently was in the possession of the antiquary Thomas Allen
  Thomas Allen (mathematician)
  Thomas Allen was an English mathematician and astrologer.-Life:He was admitted scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1561; and graduated as M.A. in 1567...
  
  , who gave it to the Bodleian.

Winchester group

This group consists of three manuscripts, the earliest of which is from Winchester.

• Winchester, Cathedral Library I. Early 11th century in multiple hands. Part of this manuscript was separated and is in the British Museum as Cotton Tiberius D. iv. part ii, ff. 158–166. There is a note on the manuscript in a 14th century hand that suggests it was in Winchester at that time, but its earlier history is unknown.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 163 (2016). Early 11th century. The manuscript was at Peterborough Abbey no later than the 12th century. There are two names on the manuscript: one is Humphrey Natures, a 16th century monk at Peterborough; the other is Henry Stowkes, of whom nothing is known. John Barneston gave it to the Bodleian in 1605. It is likely that this is a transcript of the Winchester manuscript. It conforms in some respects with later copies, but may not be the source of those copies; see below.
• Oxford, Balliol College 176. This ms dates from the second half of the 12th century, and derives from the Winchester ms. Balliol acquired the manuscript as part of the library of William Grey, bishop of Ely, who died in 1478; its earlier history is not known.

Manuscripts of the c text containing the miracle of St. Oswald

One of the distinguishing marks of the c text is the omission of IV.14, which tells of a miracle performed by St Oswald

Oswald of Northumbria

Oswald was King of Northumbria from 634 until his death, and is now venerated as a Christian saint.Oswald was the son of Æthelfrith of Bernicia and came to rule after spending a period in exile; after defeating the British ruler Cadwallon ap Cadfan, Oswald brought the two Northumbrian kingdoms of...

. However, by the end of the 11th century the missing chapter had been recovered from an m text ms. The following groups of manuscripts are all of c type but contain IV.14.

Gloucester group

This group shares with B, above, a pair of additions to the text.

• British Museum, Royal 13 C. v. Dates from the second half of the 11th century; in multiple hands. The manuscript is missing the last leaf. There are two ex-libris marks: that of Gloucester Abbey
  Gloucester Abbey
  Gloucester Abbey was a Benedictine abbey for monks in the city of Gloucester, England. The abbey was founded about 1022 and was dedicated to Saint Peter. It is recorded that the abbey lost about a quarter of its complement of monks in 1377 due to the Black Death.In 1540, the abbey was dissolved by...
  
  , and also that of Richard Hanley, abbot there from 1457 to 1472.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, DOuce 368. An early 12th century copy from Winchcomb Abbey, near Gloucester. Bede's text is followed by a life of St. Kenelm, the patron saint of the abbey; hence the copy was probably made for Winchcomb. Colgrave obtained both this manuscript and Royal 13 C. v, and compared them to determine if it were a copy of the British Museum ms, but was unable to find any evidence to settle the question.
• Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 381. First half of the 12th century; the manuscript has been damaged, apparently by rats. There is a pressmark which has not been identified, and the ms also has two signatures: John Canon and Clement Burdett, both of owned the ms after the dissolution of the monasteries.
• Oxford, New College 308. A late 12th century manuscript.
• Oxford, Pembroke College 3. Also late 12th century, but the ms is missing much material. Nothing is known of its history; it is signed in three places with a 17th century name, "Anthonye Cole of Cadwych".
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barlow 39 (6462). A 13th century manuscript missing the first thirteen leaves; also missing a leaf after f. 39. Plummer believed this was a copy of the Winchcomb ms, Douce 368, above. The origin of this ms is unknown.

Other mss

Other copies that include the chapter on St Oswald exist, but for the relationships with other manuscripts are more obscure.

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud. misc. 243. First half of the 12th century; multiple scribes. The chapter recording the miracle of St Oswald is marked out with a heading that makes it clear the intention was for the chapter to be read out loud.
• British Museum, Stowe 104. Dates from the end of the 12th century.
• London, College of Arms. This copy is from the second half of the 12th century; it bears a pressmark from Chichester Cathedral
  Chichester Cathedral
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  .
• British Museum, Additional 14250. From the late 12th or early 13th century. The ms is marked with the ex libris of Plympton
  Plympton
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   Priory; there are annals dealing with Plympton affairs which follow Bede's text.

Yorkshire group

This group is identified by the omission of the text from part way through V.24 onwards; the manuscript from which these mss derive was presumably damaged or unfinished.

• Cambridge, Trinity College R. 5. 27 (722). An early 12th century ms with the first quire missing. It has been suggested that it is a Canterbury manuscript but Colgrave comments that this is unsupported. The name "Robert Cherwell" was written on one leaf in the 16th century, but nothing is known of its history.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, Fairfax 12 (3892). A 12th century copy with an ex libris mark from Selby Abbey
  Selby Abbey
  Selby Abbey is an Anglican parish church in the town of Selby, North Yorkshire.-Background:It is one of the relatively few surviving abbey churches of the medieval period, and, although not a cathedral, is one of the biggest...
  
   in Yorkshire.
• Oxford, Lincoln College lat. 31. Mid-12th century. The ms was once owned by Robert Flemmyng, the dean of Lincoln Cathedral; Flemmyng left his library to the college when he died in 1483.
• Oxford, St. John's College 99. Second half of the 12th century. This copy has the ex libris of Jervaulx Abbey
  Jervaulx Abbey
  Jervaulx Abbey in East Witton near the city of Ripon, was one of the great Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire, England, founded in 1156. Initially a Savigniac foundation, the abbey was later taken over by the Cistercian order and responsibility for it was taken by Byland Abbey. Originally founded in...
  
  , which was founded in 1156.
• British Museum, Additional 38817. Second half of the 12th century. This ms was owned by Kirkham Priory
  Kirkham Priory
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  , which was founded in about 1122. From the table of contents it is possible to see that the ms was at one time accompanied by other texts which are also found with the St. John's ms, above; the two manuscripts are evidently connected in some way.
• London, College of Arms, Arundel 16. An early 14th century copy which is now incomplete.
• British Museum, Burney 297. From the 14th century. There is a short addition by the scribe which matches that on the Kirkham Priory copy, above; Colgrave suggests that this is therefore a copy of that ms.
• H.L. Bradfer-Lawrence. A copy was privately owned by the antiquarian Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence
  Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence
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  ; it was a 14th century ms that had been previously at Ripley Castle, and which originally came from Fountains Abbey
  Fountains Abbey
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  .
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson C 162. From the late 14th or early 15th century. The ms was once owned by John Newton, who was treasurer of York; he left it to York Minster in his will, in 1414. A Bertram Stote, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, owned it in the early 18th century.
• Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean 109. 15th century. It was owned by William Dadyngton of Barton-on-Humber who left it to Lincoln Cathedral in his will. It was also owned by Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax; and by John Thoresby of Leeds, both in the late 17th century. Colgrave suggests that the manuscript may be connected to MS Fairfax 12, above. In the 19th century the ms was part of the collection of Thomas Phillipps.

There are also four copies recorded in medieval catalogues that may have been related to this group. These are:

• A copy at Bridlington
  Bridlington
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   recorded in the 13th century
• A copy at Rievaulx
  Rievaulx
  Rievaulx is a small village and civil parish near Helmsley in North Yorkshire and is located in what was the inner court of Rievaulx Abbey, close to the River Rye. The inner court of the monastery contained buildings such as the brewhouse, bakehouse and guesthouse. Its name originated as Rye +...
  
  , also recorded in the 13th century
• A copy at the Austin Friars in York, noted in the 14th century
• A 15th century copy recorded in 1453 as having been owned by William Duffield, a canon of York, Southwark and Beverley, who died in that year.

Southern text

These manuscripts are described by Colgrave as representing "the common text of southern England in the later Middle Ages". It is characterized by several changes made to the manuscripts; Colgrave gives several examples from chapters in book I of the text. This group falls into two parts, with each set characterized by commonalities in the text.

Digby group

The first set, named the "Digby group", consists of:

• Hereford Cathedral P. v. 1. A fragment of this ms is separated and is in Bodleian MS. e Museo 93 (3632). Early 12th century. It was annotated by John Price in the 16th century, and later that century was owned by Walter Herbert. On f. 116 an omission has been corrected using Bodleian MS. Laud. misc. 243.
• Oxford, Magdalen College lat. 105. A mid-12th century copy of unknown history; see the Bury St. Edmunds ms below in this list.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 211 (1812). From the second half of the 12th century. The ms bears the ex libris of Waltham Abbey
  Waltham Abbey (abbey)
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  , which was founded in 1177.
• Cambridge, St. John's College B. 5 (27). A 14th century copy which at one time belonged to the college at Pleshey
  Pleshey
  The village of Pleshey lies in Essex, England, just to the northwest of Chelmsford.William the Conqueror gave Pleshey, in the parish of High Easter to Geoffrey de Mandeville in appreciation of his services; Mandeville was one of William's battle commanders at the Battle of Hastings in 1066...
  
  , in Essex
  Essex
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  .
• Oxford Bodleian Library, Digby 101 (1702). Early 14th century.
• Cambridge, Trinity College R. 5. 22 (717), part 1. A 14th century copy.
• Oxford, Merton College 95 (K. 3. 6). A 14th century copy which is truncated part way through V.20. Merton received it in the will of Robert Ketrynham in 1374.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 348 (10,175). A 15th century ms that contains a list of archbishops of Canterbury found also in British Museum MS. Stowe 104.
• Oxford, All Souls College 31. 15th century.
• Bury St. Edmunds, Cathedral Library. 15th century. It was given to Syon Abbey
  Syon Abbey
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   in 1490; in 1575 it was in the possession of Augustine Stywarde, who gave it to the church library in Bury. It shares several lines of verse with Oxford, Magdalen College lat. 105, above.

Colgrave suggests that a manuscript known to have been given to Pembroke College, Cambridge by Hugh Damlett in 1476 was probably in this group also.

Rochester group

The second group is characterized by, among other things, the inclusion of an Old English text on the resting places of English saints. It consists of:

• British Museum, Harley 3680. Early 12th century. This was probably written at Rochester. The ms is listed in a Rochester catalogue in 1202. Colgrave suggests that this might be the parent of all the mss that include the text on the resting places of the saints.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, e Museo 115 (3537). A 12th century ms missing a leaf at the start and several at the end. It finishes part way through V.21. The same John Prise who owned Hereford Cathedral P. v. 1 also wrote a note on this ms.
• Dublin, Trinity College E. 2. 23 (492). Second half of the 12th century. This ms comes from Bury St Edmunds Abbey.
• Oxford, Christ Church 99. From the first half of the 14th century. A 15th century name, "Thomas Spaine", is written on the inside of the cover.
• Cambridge, Trinity College R. 7. 3. Early 14th century. The binding is decorated with a coat of arms, which Colgrave was unable to identify.
• British Museum, Arundel 74. Late 14th century. This contains the coat of arms of Henry le Despenser, who was the bishop of Norwich from 1370 to 1406.

Three others in this group may be listed separately; one is now lost, and the other two are less closely related to the mss listed above.

• Oxford, Merton College. Merton still owns one copy of Bede in Merton College 95 (K. 3. 6), listed above in the Digby group, but at one time, according to a catalogue, it owned another copy. John Leland, the 16th century antiquary, asserted that a Merton ms. contained the text concerning the resting places of the saints. That text was never a part of the remaining ms, so it is likely to have been the other. That ms would have fallen into this group.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, Holkham misc. 7. In a late 15th century hand. Once owned by the Earl of Leicester and kept at his library at Holkham Hall
  Holkham Hall
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  .
• Worcester Cathedral F. 148. Second half of the 14th century. Twenty two quires of this book are now lost, including Bede's text up to the end of I.14. There are two further gaps in the ms, of one leaf and six leaves.

Uncertain lineage

Several English manuscripts, though clearly c texts, have not been placed in relationship to the other surviving manuscripts. These include:

• British Museum, Additional 38130. Dates from the 12th century. Bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1859 from Guglielmo Libri; its earlier history is unknown. Colgrave suggests it may be related to British Museum Stowe 104; see below.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 712 (2619). Written and illuminated to the instructions of Robert Wyvill, a 14th century bishop of Salisbury. This contains an early form of the c text despite the relatively late date at which it was copied.
• British Museum, Royal 13 C. vii. Late 14th century. This was owned by a 14th century Carmelite, Robert Ivory, who, before he died (some time after 1390) gave it to the London house of Carmelites
  Carmelites
  The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Carmelites is a Catholic religious order perhaps founded in the 12th century on Mount Carmel, hence its name. However, historical records about its origin remain uncertain...
  
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• Phillipps MS. 9428. A 15th century copy of little apparent interest, but which Plummer notes contains a mention of the home of James the Deacon
  James the Deacon
  James the Deacon was an Italian deacon who accompanied Paulinus of York on his mission to Northumbria. He was a member of the Gregorian mission which came to England to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism, although when he arrived in England is unknown...
  
  , near Catterick
  Catterick, North Yorkshire
  Catterick , sometimes Catterick Village, to distinguish it from the nearby Catterick Garrison, is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England...
  
  , as having been "Seynt Iemestret". Plummer comments that "the scribe probably had local knowledge".
• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 264. 14th century. The volume belonged to Simon Bozoun, the prior of Norwich from 1344 to 1352.
• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 359. 14th century.
• Cambridge, Emmanuel College I. 1. 3 (3). Dated 1481. This copy belonged to John Gunthorpe
  John Gunthorpe
  -Education and career:He was a student at Cambridge University and he had already entered into clergyship and had received holy orders. By private appointment Gunthorpe served as a secretary to Queen Elizabeth I. By 1452 he was the master of the arts at Cambridge University and served as a junior...
  
  , the dean of Wells
  Wells
  Wells is a cathedral city and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, England, on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. Although the population recorded in the 2001 census is 10,406, it has had city status since 1205...
  
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• Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College Δ. 2. 8 (30), part ii. Late 14th century. In 1592 it belonged to John Pilkington, a canon of Durham
  Durham
  Durham is a city in north east England. It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county...
  
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• Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College Δ. 5. 17 (102). 15th century. From Bury St Edmunds Abbey. An oddity in the manuscript is that near the end Bede's text is interrupted mid-sentence and a text on chronology (from 1108) has been inserted, after which the text resumes the interrupted sentence and continues to the end.
• British Museum, Cotton Vitellius E. i. Two leaves of this ms are separated and are now in Cotton Vitellius E. vii. 12th century. This may derive from Gisborough Priory
  Gisborough Priory
  Gisborough Priory is a ruined former Augustinian priory in the town of Guisborough, now in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1119 as the Priory of St. Mary by Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, an ancestor of the...
  
  . The ms was owned at one time by Henry Savile of Banke, and passed into the Cotton collection, where it was severely damaged in the Ashburnham House fire in 1731.

Manuscripts not clearly of m or c type

Other manuscripts exist that cannot be traced to the m or c texts.

• New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M 826. CLA XI, no. 1662. This consists of only a single leaf; the text is part of book III, chapters 29–30. The writing is of the late 8th century. The manuscript was owned by Thomas Phillipps
  Thomas Phillipps
  Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet was an English antiquary and book collector who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th century, due to his severe condition of bibliomania...
  
  , the antiquary. It is possible that the leaf comes from a copy known to have been at Arras
  Arras
  Arras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. The historic centre of the Artois region, its local speech is characterized as a Picard dialect...
  
   in the 11th century; the copy was still at Arras in 1718 but may have been destroyed by a librarian in the 19th century who was said to have sold a third of the manuscripts there to bookbinders.
• Bern, Burgerbibliothek 363. This contains part of book I of the text, and is included in a 9th century collection of manuscripts.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud. misc. 610. Contains a partial translation of books I and II into Old Irish.
• British Museum, MS. Egerton 3278. A single leaf, dated to the early 11th century, containing parts of V.19–20. Previously owned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.

A record survives in a catalogue of Glastonbury manuscripts from 1247 of a copy titled Historiae Anglorum scriptae a Beda, but it is not known what became of it.