by Bede
The treatise ‘De Natura Rerum’ (34) contains such physical science as was then known. It collects the wisdom of the ancient world on this subject, and has the special merit of referring phenomena to natural causes. It was published together with the two works on chronology at Basle, 1529. ‘Liber de Orthographia’ (36) was printed in the ‘Gramm. Lat. Auct. Ant.,’ Han. 1605. The ‘De Arte Metrica’ (37) contains a large number of quotations, not only from the better known, but from obscure Latin poets, and has many references to Greek examples. It was printed by Putsch in ‘Vet. Gramm.,’ Paris, 1616, and is contained in ‘Gramm. Lat.’ of H. Keil, Lei. The short treatises ‘De Schematibus et Tropis’ (37) were published at Milan by Ant. Zarotus, 1473, with two other grammatical works. This book is without signatures, catch-words, or pagination, and is very scarce (Ebert). It has also been published at Venice, 1522; at Basle, 1527, &c. It is included in the ‘Rhetores Lat. Min.’ of C. Halm, Leip., 1863. Bæda took his ‘Libellus de situ Hierusalem sive de Locis Sanctis’ from the work of Adamnan. He has not included this epitome in his index, but refers to it (Hist. Eccl. v. 17) at the close of his extract from the book of Adamnan. It was printed by Mabillon in ‘Acta SS.’ iii. 1. Eleven hymns attributed to Bæda (32) were printed by Cassander, Paris, 1556; one of these, ‘De Die Judicii,’ is in Simeon of Durham’s ‘De Gestis Regum.’ Four others have been added by Giles in his ‘Opera omnia.’ Of the Letters (25) besides the ‘Ep. ad Ecgberhtum’ are preserved — the ‘Ep. ad Albinum’ in Mabillon, Analect. i. in Smith and in Stevenson; the ‘Ep. ad Plegwinum de Sex Ætatibus,’ on the occasion of the accusation made at the feast of Wilfrith, was edited by Ware, Dublin, 1664, and Wharton, London, 1693; the ‘Ep. ad Wicredum’ is in the folio editions; the ‘Ep. ad Accam de Mansionibus,’ &c., and ‘Ad Accam de eo quod ait Esaias,’ &c., were first printed by Dr. Giles in his ‘Opera omnia,’ 1843, and the ‘Ep. de Bissexto’ in the ‘Anecdota,’ edited by Giles for the Caxton Soc., 1844.
The Anglo-Saxon version of the ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ attributed to ÆIfred has been noticed. An Anglo-Saxon version of the ‘De Die Judicii’ was published under the title ‘Be Domes Dæga’ by the E. Eng. Text. Soc., 1876. Translations of the ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ into English have been made by T. Stapleton, Antwerp, 1565; by F. Stevens, London, 1723; by W. Hurst, London, 1814; by F. A. Giles, London, 1840; and by L. Gidley, Oxford, 1870.
Durham Cathedral — Bede’s final resting place
The cathedral’s nave
Bede’s tomb
