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Book/Printed Material "Of the Nature of Things" and "Of the Times" by Bede. Letters by Saint Jerome and Pseudo-Jerome. Allegorical Drawings with Commentary and Glosses. De natura rerum. De temporum ratione/Beda Venerabilis. Epistolae/Hieronymus Ps.-Hieronymus

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Title

  • "Of the Nature of Things" and "Of the Times" by Bede. Letters by Saint Jerome and Pseudo-Jerome. Allegorical Drawings with Commentary and Glosses.

Other Title

  • De natura rerum. De temporum ratione/Beda Venerabilis. Epistolae/Hieronymus Ps.-Hieronymus

Summary

  • This manuscript contains two works on computus (computations) by the Anglo-Saxon scholar the Venerable Bede (673-735), De natura rerum (Of the nature of things) and De temporum ratione (Of the times), and letters by Saint Jerome and Pseudo-Jerome. On a page originally left blank, folio 63 recto, pen drawings were entered towards the end of the 11th century. Their motifs are monsters, composed of parts of different animals: the upper creature consists of a bird's head with donkey ears, the tail of a dragon ending in a peacock tail, a wing with a human lower arm, and a leg with a bovine hoof. The second creature has a deer's antlers on a dog's head; its human arms and hands hold a club and its legs end in claws or hooves. Latin verses accompanying the drawings explain their symbolical meaning during the Middle Ages. A bird's beak is the symbol of loquacity, for example, while deer antlers stand for arrogance. Both verses and images were intended to serve didactic purposes, in the Latin classroom and for discussing questions of moral philosophy. The manuscript was from the Benedictine monastery of Tegernsee and came to Munich in 1803.

Names

  • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735 Author.
  • Jerome, Saint, died 419 or 420 Author.
  • Pseudo-Jerome Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1025 to 1099]

Headings

  • -  Germany--Bavaria--Tegernsee
  • -  375 to 735
  • -  Calendars
  • -  Christianity -- Philosophy
  • -  Chronology
  • -  Cosmology
  • -  Ethics
  • -  Fantasy in art
  • -  Monsters
  • -  Timekeeping

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "BSB shelfmark: Clm 18158|This description of the work was written by Bettina Wagner of the Bavarian State Library."--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 94 folios : parchment ; 33 x 22.5 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Bavarian State Library.
  • -  Content in Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668100

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  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bede, The Venerable, Saint, 673-735 Author, Saint Jerome, and Pseudo-Jerome Author. "Of the Nature of Things" and "Of the Times" by Bede. Letters by Saint Jerome and Pseudo-Jerome. Allegorical Drawings with Commentary and Glosses. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1099, 1025] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668100/.

APA citation style:

Bede, T. V., Jerome, S. & Pseudo-Jerome Author. (1025) "Of the Nature of Things" and "Of the Times" by Bede. Letters by Saint Jerome and Pseudo-Jerome. Allegorical Drawings with Commentary and Glosses. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1099] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668100/.

MLA citation style:

Bede, The Venerable, Saint, 673-735 Author, Saint Jerome, and Pseudo-Jerome Author. "Of the Nature of Things" and "Of the Times" by Bede. Letters by Saint Jerome and Pseudo-Jerome. Allegorical Drawings with Commentary and Glosses. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1099, 1025] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668100/>.