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    Français : Lettrines historiées HIS représentant un portrait de Grégoire le Grand English: Historiated initial, portrait of St Gregory   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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    Français : Scriptorium de l'abbaye de Wearmouth-Jarrow
    Title
    Français : Lettrines historiées HIS représentant un portrait de Grégoire le Grand
    English: Historiated initial, portrait of St Gregory
    Description
    The Saint Petersburg Bede 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.
    Date circa 746
    institution QS:P195,Q267566
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    lat. Q. v. I. 18
    References

    (en) Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Insular Manuscripts : 6th to the 9th Century, London, Harvey Miller, coll. « A survey of manuscripts illuminated in the British Isles » (no 1), 1978, 219 p. (ISBN 9780905203010), p. 47-48 (notice 19).

    Paul Meyvaert, Bede and Gregory the Great, Jarrow Lecture, 1964, 26 p.
    Source/Photographer HistoryofScience.com and Russian National Library, St Petersberg
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