VENERABILIS BEDÆ OPERA QUÆ SUPERSUNT OMNIA, NUNC PRIMUM IN ANGLIA, OPE CODICUM MANUSCRIPTORUM, EDITIONUMQUE OPTIMARUM EDIDIT J. A. GILES, LL.D.. ECCLESIÆ ANGLICANE PRESBYTER, ET COLL. CORP. CHR. OXON. OLIM SOCIUS. VOL. II. HISTORIÆ ECCLESIASTICE LIBRI I, II, III. LONDINI: VENEUNT APUD WHITTAKER ET SOCIOS. MDCCCXLIII. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF VENERABLE BEDE, IN THE ORIGINAL LATIN, COLLATED WITH THE MANUSCRIPTS, AND VARIOUS PRINTED EDITIONS, ACCOMPANIED BY A NEW ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE HISTORICAL WORKS, AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. BY THE REV. J. A. GILES, D.C.L. LATE FELLOW OF C.C.C., OXFORD. VOL. II. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. BOOKS I. II. III. LONDON: WHITTAKER AND CO., AVE MARIA LANE. MDCCCXLIII. PREFACE. COMPLETE edition of the works of Venerable Bede has long been a desideratum in English literature. That want is now likely to be supplied, and the publication of this volume, containing the First Part of the Ecclesiastical History, announces that the whole works of England's first and most valuable writer will, ere long, be laid before the public. Another volume, containing the last part of the same important historical record, will speedily appear: after which, a series of volumes will be published, which, when finished, will comprise all that is known to have proceeded from Bede's pen; and the first volume of the series will contain a Memoir of the Author and his Works, wherein will be collected together all that we know of the life and character of this remarkable man. The Ecclesiastical History was first published on the Continent: the following is a list of the editions which were there printed : 1. Una cum Petri Trecensis (alias Comestoris) Historia Scholastica, et Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica, per Rufinum et cum additione Rufini, Argentinensi, 1500. b |